dashy

[ dash-ee ]

adjective

, dash·i·er, dash·i·est.

1. showy; stylish; dashing. dash. dashing.

Word History and Origins

Origin of dashy¹

First recorded in 1815–25; dash ¹ + -y ¹

Example Sentences

If the Beijing relay set up the 2008 Summer Games as China's coming-out party on an international stage, London's relay has set up Britain as the community Olympics - not flashy or dashy, not big or spectacular, but warm and well attended.

From Seattle Times

Among others, several of the Bonaparte family went by in a splendid barouche; and a heavy carriage, with a showy, tasselled hammer-cloth, and servants in dashy liveries, stopped just at our side, containing 218 Madame Catalani, the celebrated singer.

From Project Gutenberg

Mr. Sarony exhibits a couple of frames containing several “new photo-crayons,” cartes-de-visite vignettes, which are very sketchy and effective, exhibiting those free and “dashy lines” and “hatchings” so characteristic of the “softening off” of artistic crayon drawings.

From Project Gutenberg

Mrs. Jeremy," exclaimed the doctor; "what is there delightful, I want to know, in travelling about with an arrogant old tyrant, his blind daughter, upstart dashy wife, and her two fine-lady nieces?

From Project Gutenberg

It was a visitor, and he came alone—a young fellow of dashy appearance, handsome black hair and whiskers, and very black eyes.

From Project Gutenberg