dandy

anglicism recorded since 13/07/2020

Frequency

Calculated from occurrences since 2020.

184
total occurrences
0.195
per million, total
0.092
per million, last year
0.058
per million, last month

Recorded forms

Variants of this lemma documented in the corpus.

dandy (178) dandys (4) dandies (2)

Usage profile

Automatic estimate based on 180 contexts (since April 2020).

Quotation marks31% in quotes
In quotation marks (31%) Without quotation marks (69%)
Morphological category
Noun (81%) Adjective (15%) Other / undetermined (4%)
Grammatical genderout of 154 uses with a gender cue
Masculine (96%) Feminine (4%)

Heuristics computed over the contexts of use: the category is inferred from the kind of word preceding the borrowing, so percentages are indicative.

Frequency over time

Occurrences per million words, by week.

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By outlet

Where it is used most.

La Vanguardia 44
El País 34
El Mundo 28
El Confidencial 26
ABC 13
elDiario.es 12
20minutos 11
Rolling Stone 5
Diez Minutos 4
Elle 3

By section

What kind of news it appears in.

Culture 61
Front page 37
Television 16
Lifestyle 16
People 16
Fashion 13
Women's 7
Music 5

Words it appears with

Most frequent words in the immediate context of “dandy”, according to the corpus examples.

negro (7) estilo (5) cartas (5) gentleman (4) málaga (4) siempre (3) charlie (3) documental (3) mojadas (3) alberto (3)

Contexts of use

180 unique documented contexts, from most recent to oldest (republished articles are shown only once).

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Form Context Outlet Section Date
dandy En Madrid tuvimos , tuvieron la doble versión ' : La torre de los siete jorobados ' , película de Edgard Neville ( 1944 ) y novela del gran dandy de las calles de Madrid , Emilio Carrere . 20minutos Culture 22/11/2025
dandy Si tuviera que señalar tres figuras , Velasco empezaría por Beau Brummell , el dandy de la Inglaterra de la regencia , responsable de que se lleve corbata y de lo que hoy se entiende por elegancia masculina . La Vanguardia Lifestyle 24/11/2025
dandys Adelante íban el chofer , Miguelito Fender y Franzetti , con una botella de whisky , una hielera , pinzas para los cubitos , un atado de Gitanes y un encendedor Dupont ; eran unos dandys . Rolling Stone Music 06/01/2026
dandy Se presentaba como un payés que escribe y , en cambio , de joven , era más o menos un dandy , un ' gentleman ' que viajaba , era corresponsal en las capitales europeas y era un seductor . La Vanguardia Culture 08/03/2026
dandy Hoy no se sube a un escenario en calidad de músico , estira su traje de dandy y se sienta a conversar . El Salto Politics 25/05/2026

Contextually related borrowings

Borrowings that appear in the same articles as “dandy”: thematic or semantic neighbours in the corpus.

gentleman 6 co-occ.
hipster 5 co-occ.
look 81 co-occ.
bomber 4 co-occ.
queer 13 co-occ.
show 30 co-occ.
sport 4 co-occ.
cropped 4 co-occ.
hit 9 co-occ.
oversize 7 co-occ.
cool 8 co-occ.
thriller 15 co-occ.
short 6 co-occ.
indie 5 co-occ.
print 7 co-occ.
outfit 8 co-occ.

Borrowings containing “dandy”

Other lemmas in the corpus built on the same word.