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.
By outlet
Where it is used most.
By section
What kind of news it appears in.
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).
| 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.
Borrowings containing “dandy”
Other lemmas in the corpus built on the same word.