jimdandy

Other forms of jimdandy

plural

jimdandies·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about jimdandy

What does jimdandy mean?

jimdandy means "someone excellent of their kind". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in jimdandy?

jimdandy has 3 syllables: jim-dan-dy. The stress falls on "jim".

What is another word for jimdandy?

Close synonyms include jimhickey, crackerjack, jimhickey, crackerjack. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is jimdandy a common word?

jimdandy is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.