dashing fellow

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• Bullies — Bully Bul ly (b[.u]l l[y^]), n.; pl. {Bullies} (b[u^]l l[i^]z). [Cf. LG. bullerjaan, bullerb[ a]k, bullerbrook, a blusterer, D. bulderaar a bluster, bulderen to bluster; prob. of imitative origin; or cf. MHG. buole lover, G. buhle.] 1. A noisy,… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• Bully — Bul ly (b[.u]l l[y^]), n.; pl. {Bullies} (b[u^]l l[i^]z). [Cf. LG. bullerjaan, bullerb[ a]k, bullerbrook, a blusterer, D. bulderaar a bluster, bulderen to bluster; prob. of imitative origin; or cf. MHG. buole lover, G. buhle.] 1. A noisy,… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• fop — n Fop, dandy, beau, coxcomb, exquisite, dude, buck are comparable when denoting a man who is conspicuously fashionable or elegant in dress or manners. Fop is applied to a man who is preposterously concerned with fashionableness, elegance, and… …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

• Vladimir Nabokov — This article is about the novelist. For his father, the politician, see Vladimir Dmitrievich Nabokov. This name uses Eastern Slavic naming customs; the patronymic is Vladimirovich and the family name is Nabokov. Vladimir Nabokov Nabokov in 1969 …   Wikipedia

• buck — [OE] Old English had two related words which have coalesced into modern English buck: bucca ‘male goat’ and buc ‘male deer’. Both go back to a prehistoric Germanic stem *buk , and beyond that probably to an Indo European source. The 18th century… …   The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

• buck — [OE] Old English had two related words which have coalesced into modern English buck: bucca ‘male goat’ and buc ‘male deer’. Both go back to a prehistoric Germanic stem *buk , and beyond that probably to an Indo European source. The 18th century… …   Word origins

• bust|er — «BUHS tuhr», noun. 1. U.S. a person who breaks horses: »a bronco buster. 2. Informal. as a form of address: a) a small boy. b) a fellow. 3. Informal. something very big, striking, or remarkable of its kind. 4. Slang. a dashing fellow. 5. Informal …   Useful english dictionary

• buck — I. noun (plural bucks) Etymology: Middle English, from Old English bucca stag, he goat; akin to Old High German boc he goat, Middle Irish bocc Date: before 12th century 1. or plural buck a male animal; especially a male deer or antelope 2. a …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• Hikōtei Jidai — is a fifteen page, all watercolor manga, on which the animated film Porco Rosso is based. It was published in Model Graphix in three parts, a monthly magazine about scale models, as a part of Hayao Miyazaki s Zassou Note series. Like other manga… …   Wikipedia

• The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov — (in some British editions, The Collected Stories) is a posthumous collection of every known short story that Vladimir Nabokov ever wrote, with the exception of The Enchanter . The thirteen stories not previously published in English are… …   Wikipedia

• Nabokov's Congeries — 1st edition (publ. Viking Press) Nabokov s Congeries was a collection of work by Vladimir Nabokov published in 1968 and reprinted in 1971 as The Portable Nabokov. Because Nabokov supervised its production less than a decade before he died, it is… …   Wikipedia