dapper
Meanings
Adjective Satellite
- marked by up-to-dateness in dress and manners
- "a dapper young man"
Adj
- Neat, trim.
- Stylishly dressed, neatly dressed, spiffy.
- Quick; little and active.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English daper (“pretty, neat”), from Middle Dutch dapper (“stalwart, nimble”), Old Dutch *dapar, from Proto-Germanic *dapraz (“stout; solid; heavy; bold”) (compare German tapfer "bold", Norwegian daper "saddened, dreary"), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeb- ‘thick, heavy’ (compare Tocharian A tpär ‘high’, Latvian dàbls ‘strong’, Serbo-Croatian дебео (dèbeo) ‘fat’).
Scrabble Score: 11
dapper is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL worddapper is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
dapper is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary
Words With Friends Score: 13
dapper is a valid Words With Friends word