Jaunty vs Dapper - What's the difference?
jaunty | dapper |
Airy; showy; finical; hence, characterized by an affected or fantastical manner.
Dapper or stylish.
Ostentatiously self-confident.
Neat, trim.
* 1892 , , The Slave Of The Lamp :
Stylishly dressed, neatly dressed, spiffy.
* 1917 , , The Man With Two Left Feet :
As a proper noun jaunty
is (a traditional nickname for a navy master-at-arms).As an adjective dapper is
neat, trim.jaunty
English
Adjective
(er)- The courtier was a jaunty fellow, attuned to the esoteric court gossip and attentive to the least beneficial wind of favor blowing from the throne.
- He wore a jaunty outfit that was all the rage.
- He walked down the street with a jaunty swaggering step, as if daring others less perfectly satisfied to intrude upon his good mood.
References
*dapper
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- 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.
- Going down the street, you would meet a typical commercial traveller, dapper and alert.
