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toff, blood, US dude: He was a great dandy, and spent hours
dressing every day.
--adj. 2 fine, splendid, first-rate, great, marvellous, neat,
spectacular: Penny's father bought her a dandy new car.
danger n. 1 peril, risk, threat, hazard, jeopardy: The danger of an
avalanche is too great to go skiing. 2 in danger of. likely (to
be), liable (to be): If you drink and drive, you are in danger
of causing a road accident.
dangerous adj. 1 risky, perilous, hazardous, unsafe, precarious, rickety,
Colloq chancy, iffy: Rock-climbing is very dangerous. 2
threatening, menacing, harmful, treacherous: He is a dangerous
criminal, wanted for murder.
dangerously
adv. 1 perilously, hazardously, unsafely, precariously,
recklessly: He's a mountain-climber who likes to live
dangerously. 2 ominously, alarmingly: She is standing
dangerously close to the edge.
dangle v. 1 hang (down), droop, depend, swing, sway: The rope dangled
from the top of the flag-pole. 2 flaunt, brandish, wave,
flourish: Competitors often dangle big salary increases in
front of those who agree to leave our company. 3 wait, Slang
cool one's heels: They have kept me dangling for weeks for
their decision.
dapper adj. neat, spruce, smart, trim, well-dressed, well turned out,
stylish, fashionable, elegant, chic, dressy; Colloq got up or
dressed to the nines, dressed to kill, swanky or swank, ritzy;
Slang snazzy, nifty, spiffy, sharp, swell, classy: Tony looks
very dapper in his new Savile Row suit.
dapple adj. 1 spotted, dotted, mottled, speckled, flecked, dappled;
brindled; pied, piebald, skewbald, paint, flea-bitten, US pinto:
Take the chestnut mare - I'll ride the dapple grey.
--v. 2 spot, dot, mottle, speckle, bespeckle, stipple: Dapple
paint on the wall with a sponge to get a mottled effect.
dare v. 1 challenge, defy, provoke; throw down the gauntlet: She