Word Meanings - FASHION-MONGER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One who studies the fashions; a fop; a dandy. Marston.

Related words: (words related to FASHION-MONGER)

• DANDY
  dandiner to waddle, to play the fool; prob. allied to E. dandle. 1. One who affects special finery or gives undue attention to dress; a fop; a coxcomb. A sloop or cutter with a jigger on which a lugsail is set. A small sail carried at or near the
• DANDYLING
  A little or insignificant dandy; a contemptible fop.
• DANDYISE; DANDYIZE
  To make, or to act, like a dandy; to dandify.
• DANDY-COCK; DANDY-HEN
  A bantam fowl.
• DANDYISH
  Like a dandy.
• DANDYISM
  The manners and dress of a dandy; foppishness. Byron.
• HANDY-DANDY
  A child's play, one child guessing in which closed hand the other holds some small object, winning the object if right and forfeiting an equivalent if wrong; hence, forfeit. Piers Plowman.
• JACK-A-DANDY
  A little dandy; a little, foppish, impertinent fellow.