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1 jaunty -- rank: 1000

jaunty definitions WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005) adj 1: marked by ... dateness in dress and manners; "a dapper young man"; "a jaunty red hat" [syn: dapper, dashing, jaunty, natty, raffish, rakish, spiffy, snappy, spruce] 2: having a cheerful ... gay, brisk, and debonair"- H.M.Reynolds; "walked with a jaunty step"; "a jaunty optimist" [syn: chipper, debonair, debonaire, jaunty] Merriam Webster's adjective (jauntier; -est) Etymology: modification of ...

2 jaunty car -- rank: 897

jaunty car definitions WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005) n 1: an ... horse cart formerly widely used in Ireland [syn: jaunting car, jaunty car] Webster's 1913 Dictionary Jaunt Jaunt, v. i. [imp ... the passengers ride sidewise, sitting back to back. [Written also jaunty car.] --Thackeray.

3 Rakish -- rank: 537

... dateness in dress and manners; "a dapper young man"; "a jaunty red hat" [syn: dapper, dashing, jaunty, natty, raffish, rakish, spiffy, snappy, spruce] 2: marked by a ... of speed < a rakish ship > 2. dashingly or carelessly unconventional ; jaunty < rakish clothes > Oxford Reference Dictionary 1. adj. of or like a rake (see RAKE(2)); dashing; jaunty. Derivatives: rakishly adv. rakishness n. 2. adj. (of a ship ... flashing, flashy, flaunting, foppish, free, frilly, frothy, gallant, gay, glittering, jaunty, jazzy, licentious, profligate, raffish, rakehell, rakehellish, rakehelly, showy, smart, snazzy ...

4 debonair -- rank: 480

... gay, brisk, and debonair"- H.M.Reynolds; "walked with a jaunty step"; "a jaunty optimist" [syn: chipper, debonair, debonaire, jaunty] Merriam Webster's adjective Etymology: Middle English debonere, from Anglo ... dapper, dashing, elegant, free and easy, gay, genteel, gracious, insouciant, jaunty, light, light-hearted, lighthearted, lightsome, mannerly, nonchalant, obliging, perky, pleasant ...

5 Spruce -- rank: 480

... dateness in dress and manners; "a dapper young man"; "a jaunty red hat" [syn: dapper, dashing, jaunty, natty, raffish, rakish, spiffy, snappy, spruce] n 1: light soft ... a. Neat (without elegance), trim, nice, trig, fine, finical, smart, jaunty, natty, foppish, dandyish, tidy, smug. II. v. n. Prink, dress ... full dress, in full feather, in high feather, in tails, jaunty, modish, natty, neat, nifty, nobby, posh, primp, purged, purified, recherche ...

6 perky -- rank: 480

... perkier; -est) Date: 1855 1. briskly self-assured ; cocky 2. jaunty < a perky…waltz — New Yorker > • perkily adverb • perkiness noun Oxford ... Webster's 1913 Dictionary Perky Perk"y, a. Perk; pert; jaunty; trim. There amid perky larches and pines. --Tennyson. Collin's ... ADJ Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms a. Perk, trim, jaunty, airy. Moby Thesaurus active, activist, activistic, aggressively self-confident, airy ... go, full of life, full of pep, gay, immodest, invigorated, jaunty, know-it-all, light, lighthearted, lightsome, live, lively, mercurial, militant ...

7 natty -- rank: 480

... 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 ... of English Synonyms a. ( Colloq. ) Neat, spruce, tidy, nice, fine, jaunty, trig, trim, finical, foppish, dandyish. Moby Thesaurus bandbox, braw, chic ... doggy, dressed to advantage, dressed to kill, elegant, exquisite, genteel, jaunty, neat, nifty, nobby, posh, recherche, ritzy, sassy, sharp, sleek, smart ...

8 jauntily -- rank: 480

... definitions WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005) adv 1: in a jaunty fashionable manner; "his hat sat jauntily on his full brown hair" Merriam Webster's adverb see jaunty Webster's 1913 Dictionary Jauntily Jaun"ti*ly, adv. In a jaunty manner. Collin's Cobuild Dictionary see jaunty

9 Perk -- rank: 414

... or smart; to straighten up; to erect; to make a jaunty or saucy display of; as, to perk the ears; to ... Webster's 1913 Dictionary Perk Perk, a. Smart; trim; spruce; jaunty; vain. ``Perk as a peacock.'' --Spenser. Webster's 1913 Dictionary ... look sharply, scan. III. a. Pert, trim, smart, brisk, airy, jaunty, vain, perky.

10 Dapper -- rank: 414

... 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 ... to advantage, dressed to kill, dressy, elegant, exquisite, fashionable, genteel, jaunty, natty, neat, nifty, nobby, posh, rakish, recherche, ritzy, sassy, sharp ...

11 spiffy -- rank: 414

... 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 ... gear, genteel, great, groovy, heavy, hot, hunky-dory, jam-up, jaunty, just dandy, keen, marvy, mean, natty, neat, nifty, nobby, okay ...

12 chipper -- rank: 414

... gay, brisk, and debonair"- H.M.Reynolds; "walked with a jaunty step"; "a jaunty optimist" [syn: chipper, debonair, debonaire, jaunty] Merriam Webster's I. noun Date: 1513 one that chips ...

13 debonaire -- rank: 414

... gay, brisk, and debonair"- H.M.Reynolds; "walked with a jaunty step"; "a jaunty optimist" [syn: chipper, debonair, debonaire, jaunty]

14 Dashing -- rank: 414

... 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 ... galloping, gay, genteel, glittering, hair-trigger, hasty, headlong, hustling, impetuous, jaunty, jazzy, keen, light of heel, light-footed, lively, mercurial, modish ...

15 Showy -- rank: 327

... Gaudy, flashy, gay, glaring, gairish, flaunting, gorgeous, splendid, fine, dressy, jaunty, airy, bedizened, pranked out, tinsel. 2. Grand, stately, ostentatious, pompous ... flowing, high-flown, high-flying, high-sounding, highfalutin, inkhorn, intricate, jaunty, jazzy, labyrinthine, lexiphanic, lofty, lurid, luxurious, magniloquent, meretricious, opulent, ornate ...