dapper

名词 n. 形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 /ˈdæpə(ɹ)/   

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A plimsoll. UK,dialectal
形容词 adj.
  1. Neat, trim.
    — This entrance is through a little courtyard, in which is the stable and coach-house combined, where Madame Perinere, a lady who paints the magic word "Modes" beneath her name on the door-post of number seventeen, keeps the dapper little cart and pony which carry her bonnets to the farthest corner of Paris.
  2. Stylishly dressed, neatly dressed, spiffy.
    — “It is too bad that monsieur has been troubled,” said Tarzan, turning to the newspaper man. “I bid monsieur good evening,” and he bowed the dapper young man out of the room, and closed the door in his face.
  3. Quick; little and active.

词形变化

dapperer comparative dapperest superlative dappers plural

词汇关系

衍生词
Dapper Dan dapperling dapperly dapperness undapper

词源

From Middle English daper (“pretty, neat”), from Middle Dutch dapper (“stalwart, nimble”), Old Dutch *dapar, from Proto-Germanic *dapraz (“stout; solid; heavy; bold”) (compare German tapfer "bold", Norwegian daper "saddened, dreary"), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeb- ‘thick, heavy’ (compare Tocharian A tpär ‘high’, Latvian dàbls ‘strong’, Serbo-Croatian дебео (dèbeo) ‘fat’).
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