Register for the Daily Good Word E-Mail! - You can get our daily Good Word sent directly to you via e-mail in either HTML or Text format. The phrase "Dapper Dan" comes from a 1921 song of that name written by Lew Brown and Albert Von Tilzer, who also wrote 'The Girl in the Gilded Cage' and 'I Want a Girl Just Like the Girl that Married Dear Old Dad.' He must have been a mama's boy. Latin faber "craftsman" and fabre "skillfully", underlying the English borrowing fabricate, seems to have come from the same PIE word. The latter probably developed from the former back when fat people were considered wealthy and good candidates for marriage. Modern Dutch dapper "brave", Russian debelyi "thick, fat" and dobryi "good", are apparently derived from the same PIE word. Dapraz was based on PIE dheb-r-/dhob-r- "thick, stocky, firm", via the intermediary sense of "unmovable, standing firm". Word History: Today's Good Word was probably borrowed from Middle Dutch dapper "quick, strong", from Proto-Germanic dapraz "heavy, source also of German tapfer "brave". Ulysses Everett McGill: Well, ain't this place a geographical oddity. Now if you want Dapper Dan, I can order it for you, have it in a couple of weeks. Dapper Dan wielded several different kinds of authority, depending on whom he was talking to: he could be a self-taught philosopher, a refined couturier, a gruff salesman (no discounts, no. Is this real, or is it a prop thing If it is real, what does it smell like Yep. I'm a Dapper Dan man Pomade Vendor: Watch your language, young feller, this is a public market. Two weeks from everywhere I like my hair jelly. Somebody please make a grinder that has this printed on it. Glad Im not the Im Dapper Dan man o brother where art thou Besides,I will do this only one who refers to my dog as a person. In Play: The meaning of today's adjective is very narrowly focused on a very neatly dressed man with an air of self-confidence that shows in his posture and walk: "Quentin looked quite dapper in his sharply creased pants, spit-polished shoes, and sprightly gait." The word does carry humorous connotations, though, making it easy to play with: "Lloyd dresses so badly he makes Rodney Dangerfield look dapper!" Hook (Do it do it) Do it do it I can do it watch me do it I can dance dance dance (Dance) (Do it do it) Do it do it I can do it let me show you Im a dancing man (Dance) Verse 3 I got rhythm. I’m a Dapper Dan man I don’t want FOP goddamit Ain’t this place a geographical oddity. God damnit I don't want Fop, I'm a Dapper Dan man Its I don't want fop god dammit, I'm a dapper Dan man HOT DAMN it's the Soggy Bottom Boys Holy shit. This is why Ulysses Everett McGill (played by George Clooney) in the Coen Brothers' film, 'O Brother, Where Art Thou?' exclaims, "Well I don't want Fop, dammit! I'm a Dapper Dan man!" when he finds a store that carried Fop pomade, but not his favorite brand, Dapper Dan. Dapper men generally have closely cut hair and often use a bit of oily hair tonic to hold it in place. This word is used most often in the phrase 'Dapper Dan', referring to any dapper man. Notes: The comparative of today's adjective is more dapper and the superlative is most dapper. Neat, trim, jaunty, spiffy, snazzy, spruce in appearance smartly groomed and dressed, 2.
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