"dandyish" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From dandy + -ish.",
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      "form": "more dandyish",
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  "pos": "adj",
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          "word": "dandyishly"
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          "ref": "1916 December 29, James Joyce, chapter II, in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, New York, N.Y.: B[enjamin] W. Huebsch, →OCLC, page 83:",
          "text": "The latter was a stranger to him but in the darkness, by the aid of the glowing cigarette tips, he could make out a pale dandyish face over which a smile was travelling slowly, a tall overcoated figure and a hard hat.",
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          "ref": "2002, Julian Rathbone, A Very English Agent, London: Little, Brown, →ISBN, page 80:",
          "text": "His clothes were sombre, clean but not immaculate, pressed, but yesterday perhaps not today. In short, neither slovenly nor dandyish.",
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          "ref": "2004, Alan Hollinghurst, chapter 3, in The Line of Beauty […], 1st US edition, New York, N.Y.: Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN:",
          "text": "As he crossed the drawing room he acknowledged himself with a flattered smile in a mirror. He was wearing a wing collar, and something dandyish in him, some memory of the licence and discipline of being in a play, lifted his mood.",
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        "Characteristic of or resembling the style of a dandy."
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        {
          "word": "dandiacal"
        },
        {
          "word": "foppish"
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  "word": "dandyish"
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          "ref": "1916 December 29, James Joyce, chapter II, in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, New York, N.Y.: B[enjamin] W. Huebsch, →OCLC, page 83:",
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