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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

DAP'PER, a. Active; nimble; brisk; or little and active; neat; tight; as a dapper fellow; a dapper spark.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: marked by up-to-dateness in dress and manners; "a dapper young man"; "a jaunty red hat" [syn: dapper, dashing, jaunty, natty, raffish, rakish, spiffy, snappy, spruce]

Merriam Webster's

adjective Etymology: Middle English dapyr, from Middle Dutch dapper quick, strong; akin to Old High German tapfar heavy, Old Church Slavic debel? thick Date: 15th century 1. a. neat and trim in appearance b. very spruce and stylish 2. alert and lively in movement and manners • dapperly adverb • dapperness noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. 1 neat and precise, esp. in dress or movement. 2 sprightly. Derivatives: dapperly adv. dapperness n. Etymology: ME f. MLG, MDu. dapper strong, stout

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Dapper Dap"per, a. [OE. daper; prob. fr. D. dapper brave, valiant; akin to G. tapfer brave, OHG. taphar heavy, weighty, OSlav. dobr[u^] good, Russ. dobrui. Cf. Deft.] Little and active; spruce; trim; smart; neat in dress or appearance; lively. He wondered how so many provinces could be held in subjection by such a dapper little man. --Milton. The dapper ditties that I wont devise. --Spenser. Sharp-nosed, dapper steam yachts. --Julian Hawthorne.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

A man who is dapper has a very neat and clean appearance, and is often also small and thin. ...a dapper little man. ADJ

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. 1. Active, lively, brisk, agile, nimble, spry, smart, quick, alert, ready. 2. Spruce, nice, neat, trim, pretty.

Moby Thesaurus

bandbox, braw, chic, chichi, classy, clothes-conscious, cosmopolitan, dashing, doggy, dressed to advantage, dressed to kill, dressy, elegant, exquisite, fashionable, genteel, jaunty, natty, neat, nifty, nobby, posh, rakish, recherche, ritzy, sassy, sharp, showy, sleek, smart, smug, snazzy, soigne, soignee, sophisticated, spiffy, spruce, style-conscious, stylish, swank, swanky, swell, tricksy, trig, trim, well-dressed, well-groomed