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Dapper vs Shipshape - What's the difference?

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Dapper is a related term of shipshape.


As adjectives the difference between dapper and shipshape

is that dapper is neat, trim while shipshape is meticulously neat and tidy.

dapper

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Neat, trim.
  • * 1892 , , The Slave Of The Lamp :
  • This entrance is through a little courtyard, in which is the stable and coach-house combined, where Madame Perinere, a lady who paints the magic word "Modes" beneath her name on the door-post of number seventeen, keeps the dapper little cart and pony which carry her bonnets to the farthest corner of Paris.
  • Stylishly dressed, neatly dressed, spiffy.
  • * 1917 , , The Man With Two Left Feet :
  • Going down the street, you would meet a typical commercial traveller, dapper and alert.

    Derived terms

    * Dapper Dan

    Anagrams

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    shipshape

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • meticulously neat and tidy
  • * 1937 , , 01:44:00:
  • -- When are you going out fishing again? -- Oh, in about six weeks, when we're shipshape aloft.
  • Organized, serviceable, trained and ready for action