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Yawl vs Dandy - What's the difference?

yawl | dandy |

As nouns the difference between yawl and dandy

is that yawl is (nautical) a small ship's boat, usually rowed by four or six oars while dandy is a man very concerned about his clothes and his appearance.

As a verb yawl

is to cry out; to howl;.

As a adjective dandy is

like a dandy, foppish.

yawl

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A small ship's boat, usually rowed by four or six oars.
  • A fore and aft rigged sailing vessel with two masts, main and mizzen, the mizzen stepped abaft the rudder post.
  • Verb

    (head)
  • To cry out; to howl;
  • ----

    dandy

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Like a dandy, foppish.
  • Very good; better than expected but not as good as could be.
  • That's all fine and dandy , but how much does it cost?
  • Almost first rate.
  • What a dandy little laptop you have.

    Noun

    (dandies)
  • A man very concerned about his clothes and his appearance.
  • (British, nautical) A yawl, or a small after-sail on a yawl.
  • A dandy roller.
  • Synonyms

    * (man concerned with appearance) dude, fop, macaroni, masher, metrosexual, popinjay, buck

    Derived terms

    * dandify * dandification * dandyish

    See also

    * * ----