SMART, SMARTNESS (appearance)
ADJECTIVES
– ALL THE TON fashionable, smart …L18 sl.
– BENDY extremely fashionable, smart, ‘cool’ …1990s US teen sl.
– AFTERNOONIFIED smart, chic …L19 sl.
– BINKIE gaudy, trimly-dressed, smart …Bk1898 Sc.
– CHI-CHI smart, stylish; pretentious, affected; fancy …20C Amer. sl.
– CRISS attractive, fashionable, smart; good, nice … 1954 sl., chiefly Jamaican
– DANDY of the nature of a dandy; affectedly neat, trim, or smart …1813
– DAPPER neat, trim, smart in dress or appearance …LME
– DASHY-LOOKING well-dressed, smart …1886 Sc.
– DIMPSEY neat, smart …Bk1900 Eng. dial. obs.
– DOSSY elegant, stylish, smart, spiffy …M19 sl.
– FANCY-ASS showy, smart …2000s sl.
– FANCY-PANTS smart, pretentious … 1951 sl.
– FANNICKY smart in appearance …Bk1900 Eng. dial.
– FASSY smart, fine, fashionable …Bk1900 Eng. dial.
– FLASH characterized by outward show; gaudy, showy, smart, flashy …1785
– FONKY-FRESH a general adj. of high praise, the most sophisticated, the smartest, the most attractive …1980s African-American sl.
– FUNKY-FRESH a general adj. of high praise, the most sophisticated, the smartest, the most attractive …1980s African-American sl.
– GALLANT gorgeous or showy in appearance; finely-dressed, smart …c1420 arch.
– GEMMY spruce, neat, smart; neatly-made; dexterous …1750 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
– GIM smart, spruce, fine, neat, pretty …1513 obs. exc. Eng dial.
– GIMMY spruce, neat, smart; neatly-made; dexterous …1750 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
– GUIVER; GUYVER; GYVER smart, fashionable …a1866 Aust. & NZ sl.
– JAM neat, smart, spruce …Bk1896 sl.
– JAUNTY of things: elegant, stylish, smart …1678 obs.
– JEMMY spruce, dandified, neat, smart; dexterous …1750 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
– JIMMY spruce, neat, smart; neatly-made; dexterous …1750 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
– KIPPY smart, attractive …1956 US sl.
– KNOBBY stylish; smart, elegant, fashionable, good, capital …Bk1913-17 Amer. dial.
– LA-DE-DA very stylish; affectedly smart of costume, voice, manners; pretentious …c1860 colloq.
– LAHDEE smart, fashionable …1930s sl.
– LAHDI smart, fashionable …1930s sl.
– MACKISH smart …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– NACKETY compact, neat, tidy, smart-looking …1756 Sc.
– NEAT of persons: inclined to refinement or elegance; finely or elegantly dressed; trim or smart in apparel …1546 obs.
– NEAT of women: trim, smart …1559 obs.
– NEBBIE smart …1926 Sc.
– NET of persons: trim, smart, or elegant, esp. in dress …a1300 obs. rare
– NET of things: neat, smart …1637 rare
– NIBLIKE smart, fashionable … M19 sl.
– NIFTY conspicuous; smart …Bk1902 Amer. sl.
– NOBBY stylish; smart, elegant, fashionable, good, capital …Bk1913-17 Amer. dial.
– NUTTY smart, spruce, attractive … 18C sl.
– PRESSED TO THE MAX very well-dressed, very smart … 1980s sl.
– PRIMPED elaborately dressed or made up; fussily neat or smart… 1625
– PRUNK neat, smart, pretty …1892 Sc.
– RACKED UP neat, smartly turned out …1950s sl.
– RAKISH smart, fashionable …1847
– SASSY smart, fashionable …L19 sl.
– SHANTY showy, smart …L17 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
– SHARP of clothes or their wearer: stylish, neatly fashionable, smart …M20 colloq.
– SKOOKUM big; powerful, terrific; smart …1965 Can. sl.
– SMUDGE smart, trim … 1596 obs. rare
– SNAPPY fashionably smart …1881 UK sl.
– SNAZZY elegant; stylish; smart and fashionable; clever and desirable …1932 Amer. sl.
– SNITZY elegant, smart …20C US sl.
– SNORKY well-dressed, smart, elegant, stylish, up-to-date
– SPANDY very good or fine; smart …M19 US colloq.
– SPANKING outstanding fine, large, smart, etc. …colloq.
– SPANKY showy, smart, dashing, well-dressed …1789 Sc.
– SPIFFING excellent, first-rate; fashionable or smart …1872 UK sl.
– SPORTY smart in dress, behaviour, etc. …1885 colloq.
– SPRIG smart, neat, trim; said of a person’s appearance … 1675 obs.
– SPRINK smart, well-dressed … 1602 obs. rare
– SPRUCY smart in appearance; neat, dapper, attractive … 1774
– SPRUNNY neat, spruce, smart …1733 Eng. dial.
– SPRUNT brisk, active; smart, spruce … 1631 obs.
– SWANKEE; SWANKY smart, sophisticated, chic …L19 sl.
– SWISH smart, elegant, fashionable … 1879 colloq.
– TIGHT neat in appearance; neatly and carefully dressed; trim, tidy, smart; of a neat compact build, well-made, shapely …1697 arch. or Eng. dial.
– TIPLEY clean, tidy, smart; generally used ironically …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– TIPPY in the height of fashion; smart, fine, fashionable …1810 ?obs.
– TIPPY-BOB gaudy, smart, dandified, showy in dress …B1900 Eng. dial.
– TOFFISH stylish, smart …1898
– TOFFY stylish, smart …1901
ADVERBS
– NETLY neatly, smartly …1577-87 obs. rare
– SPRUNTLY smartly, sprucely … 1631 obs.
– TIGHTLY neatly, tidily, smartly …1825-9
NOUNS
– SNAZZ elegance; smartness …1930s Amer. sl.
– SWANK dashing smartness, as in dress or appearance; style
NOUNS, PERSON
– DALLACKS a smart, overdressed person …Bk1900 Eng. dial.
– DAPPER FELLOW a smart, well-made, little man …1762
– GUYVO a smart fellow; a dandy …20C Royal Navy usage
– SHARPSTER a smart or stylish dresser …M20 colloq., chiefly US
– SMARTY a smartly dressed person … 1847 colloq., orig. US
– TEAR-AWAY one who is smart or striking or any way …1901 Ireland
– TIPPY-BOB a smart, fashionably-dressed person, a fop …B1900 Eng. dial.
VERBS
– BESMARTEN to make smart or neat …Bk1911 Sc.
– DANDIFY to give the character or style of a dandy to; to make trim and smart like a dandy …1823 colloq.
– GUSSY UP to smarten up …sl.
– MUNDIFY to make oneself neat or smart; to spruce oneself up … 1568 obs.
– POSH UP to smarten up, to make posh …1919 sl.
– PRUNK to make oneself smart and neat; to dress neatly; generally used with ‘up’ …B1900 Sc.
– SMART UP to make smart or spruce; to improve in appearance or style … 1780 colloq.
– SMUDGE to make smart or trim; to deck up … 1589 obs. rare
– SNAZZ UP to make something smarter and more elegant; to enhance …1970s Amer. sl.
– SPRUCIFY to make neat, trim, or attractive in appearance; to smarten; to spruce up … 1611 rare
– SPRUG to smarten a person up; to dress smartly or attractively … 1622 obs.
– SPRY to smarten up … 1878 rare
– TITIVATE; TITTIVATE to make small alterations to one’s toilet, etc. so as to add to one’s attractions; to make smart or spruce; to ‘touch up’ in the way of adornment, to put the finishing touches to …1805
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