Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One that is very pleasing or excellent of its kind.
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- adjective colloquial
Excellent ,outstanding . - noun colloquial Something that is a very
superior example of its kind of thing.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Such a production is perfectly fine, is peachy-keen, is jim-dandy as long as the director is aware of making that choice and uses it meaningfully instead of simply being lazy or unobservant.
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Worst, I know from personal experience within my own extended family, there are some who would think this is a jim-dandy notion...
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But maybe I should just say that these are beautiful and very cool and very, very dandy ... jim-dandy even!
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Wasn't Collins the chair (or ranking member) when Lieberman decided Michael Brown was just a jim-dandy candidate to head FEMA?
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For those of you joining us mid-series, this checklist is intended less to help any aspiring writer who might happen to stumble upon it to create a jim-dandy synopsis from scratch, but to improve an already-existing draft.
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Worst, I know from personal experience within my own extended family, there are some who would think this is a jim-dandy notion...
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Was this a calculated snub of Europe -- since snubs of Europe still seem to fire up the type of people who think Sarah Palin is a jim-dandy candidate for VP -- or at least a calculated snub gone somehow wrong, like John Kerry's botched joke?
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I'm finding my Audiovox Harrier is a jim-dandy e-book reader all on its own.
Archive 2006-01-01 Edward Willett 2006
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Thats a jim-dandy cat, observed Mark, squatting to take a better look.
Burned Ellen Hopkins 2008
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Frum reminds his readers that Goldwater, who thought that if we could just get government back on a short leash everything would be jim-dandy, and Reagan, he of the "morning in America" sunny disposition, both believed in minimal government because they believed in the moral and cultural health of American society.
Up From Geniality 2008
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