(n.) One who affects special finery or gives undue attention to dress; a fop; a coxcomb.
(n.) A sloop or cutter with a jigger on which a lugsail is set.
(n.) A small sail carried at or near the stern of small boats; -- called also jigger, and mizzen.
(n.) A dandy roller. See below.
Example Sentences:
(1) In a 3-year-old child, a rare combination of a Dandy-Walker syndrome, a primitive trigeminal artery and a facial haemangioma was found.
(2) That's just dandy when you're gazing at a lamb chop with mint sauce, but the downside to this technology is that each time you glance at the image of Jamie on the front cover you'll absorb some of him, too.
(3) Neil Morton has written a dandy little blog explaining how he found the perfect soundtrack for the aftermath of England's tussle with Italy last weekend.
(4) A child who had the Dandy-Walker syndrome along with her healthy twin sibling were followed regularly for a period of 2 years.
(5) Three cases of Dandy-Walker syndrome are described.
(6) The presenting diagnoses were Cogan's syndrome, Meniere's syndrome, Dandy's syndrome without hearing loss, or progressive sensorineural hearing loss without dizziness.
(7) After rhizotomia (Dandys method) 3 patients died, one of them because of a meningitis, one of them because of damage of the superior petrosal vein and one after ligature of an irregular auditive artery.
(8) A review of serial computed tomography (CT) scans of 25 patients with the Dandy-Walker malformation revealed six patients with chronic downward transincisural herniation of the cerebrum after shunt decompression of the posterior fossa cyst or malfunction of a lateral ventricular drainage catheter, or both.
(9) In this series, one patient had aqueductal stenosis, four had agenesis of the corpus callosum, two had hydrocephalus, one had cerebral abiotrophy, and one (a 72-year-old man) had no additional defects and no symptoms from his Dandy-Walker syndrome.
(10) Two patients with the Dandy-Walker malformation first developed neurologic symptoms in adult life.
(11) Autopsy findings included intraphepatic biliary atresia, coarctation of the aorta of the infantile type, and the Dandy-Walker syndrome.
(12) Fielding, surrealist comic, painter and dandy, is recreating the glam rock 1970s.
(13) The differential diagnosis of a posterior fossa fluid collection in the fetus includes an enlarged cisterna magna, Dandy-Walker syndrome, or a posterior fossa cyst, each of which has differing implications for perinatal management.
(14) In the present report we describe a girl with mental retardation, Dandy-Walker malformation, craniofacial anomalies, cardiac defect, and ovarian dysgenesis associated with an interstitial deletion of chromosome 2.
(15) The Dandy-Walker malformation was found at autopsy in our patient.
(16) All 3 children had associated hindbrain deformities; two with Dandy-Walker malformation, the third with a Chiari II malformation.
(17) Clinical and complementary investigation revealed a malformation syndrome with many anomalies like those of trisomy 9p as well as Dandy-Walker cyst and Hirschsprung disease not previously described in tetrasomy 9p.
(18) A rare case is reported of Dandy-Walker cyst of the posterior fossa with intracystic chronic hemorrhage.
(19) Three cases were associated with other congenital anomalies: intracranial angioma, Dandy Walker Syndrome and Klippel-Trenauncy Syndrome.
(20) An infant had a giant congenital nevus, neurocutaneous melanosis (NCM), and a Dandy-Walker malformation of the brain.
Foppish
Definition:
(a.) Foplike; characteristic of a top in dress or manners; making an ostentatious display of gay clothing; affected in manners.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Who embody that classic British pop cult paradox: foppish violence.
(2) A quick graze of the internet will provide fan theories to feed any hunches you’ve long felt about the happy-go-lucky companionship of Timon and Pumbaa, and their effective adoption of baby Simba, in The Lion King – or indeed the foppish villainy of the same film’s Scar, an alpha lion who has never found a mate in the pride.
(3) But the one that really jumped out was of a chav-themed school disco: all these rosy-cheeked, foppish-looking public schoolkids dressed in baseball caps and Adidas tracksuits.
(4) Meanwhile, his trademark foppish hair and retro indie kid glasses have that perfect British nerdishness thing going on: one part Geography teacher, one part Dalston muso.
(5) His Vietnam war heroism was recast as cowardice by George W Bush’s allies in 2004, and Bush successfully portrayed Kerry as a foppish buffoon.
(6) Will you be checking in on Depp's bumbling, foppish clot?
(7) Beneath the foppish exterior, however – he always wore a waistcoat and a watch-chain – the spirit of a true radical was often trying to escape.
(8) No longer the foppish stereotype Brit, more high-minded Gary Cooper in Mr Deeds Goes to Town.
(9) Elsewhere, he captures a foppish Mick Jagger with Marianne Faithfull attending a banquet in Co Kildare as guests of Desmond Guinness.
(10) But while the Downton Effect benefits Cumberbatch and co, ex-Hollyoaks stars don't exactly fit the foppish British stereotype beloved of US casting directors.