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DASHING
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Marked by up-to-dateness in dress and manners
Example:
a jaunty red hat
Synonyms:
dapper; dashing; jaunty; natty; raffish; rakish; snappy; spiffy; spruce
Classified under:
Similar:
fashionable; stylish (being or in accordance with current social fashions)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Lively and spirited
Example:
a dashing hero
Synonyms:
dashing; gallant
Classified under:
Similar:
spirited (displaying animation, vigor, or liveliness)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb dash
Context examples:
Henry and Frederick Lynn are very dashing sparks indeed; and Colonel Dent is a fine soldierly man.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
No wonder! dashing about with his curricle and hunters!
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
He was a dashing, swaggering chap, smart and curled, who had seen half the world and could talk of what he had seen.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
A dashing way he had of treating me like a plaything, was more agreeable to me than any behaviour he could have adopted.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
And not only did it appear that he was expected, and speedily, but the Musgroves, in their warm gratitude for the kindness he had shewn poor Dick, and very high respect for his character, stamped as it was by poor Dick's having been six months under his care, and mentioning him in strong, though not perfectly well-spelt praise, as a fine dashing felow, only two perticular about the schoolmaster, were bent on introducing themselves, and seeking his acquaintance, as soon as they could hear of his arrival.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
Adieu! my dear sweet Fanny, this is a long letter from London: write me a pretty one in reply to gladden Henry's eyes, when he comes back, and send me an account of all the dashing young captains whom you disdain for his sake.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
I made bold to tell her majesty, that I owed no other obligation to my late master, than his not dashing out the brains of a poor harmless creature, found by chance in his fields: which obligation was amply recompensed, by the gain he had made in showing me through half the kingdom, and the price he had now sold me for.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
The idea of her being indebted to Mrs. Elton for what was called an introduction—of her going into public under the auspices of a friend of Mrs. Elton's—probably some vulgar, dashing widow, who, with the help of a boarder, just made a shift to live!
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
It was answered from behind Dr. Seward's house by the yelping of dogs, and after about a minute three terriers came dashing round the corner of the house.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
I lay on the deck looking at the stars and listening to the dashing of the waves.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
