(uncountable) Formalwear.
And on today’s episode of bread and circus you can watch the 1% do fancy dress!!!
Mum called with great excitement saying that she had found some sweeties shaped like eyeballs, I thought she was buying them for the grandchildren but it turns out she is in Lourdes and there is a fancy dress competit…
(uncountable) Formalwear.
And yet here he was, if one could credit one's senses, about to take part in a fancy-dress ball, a form of entertainment notoriously a testing experience for the toughest. And he was attending that fancy-dress ball, mark you--not, like e…
“And on today’s episode of bread and circus you can watch the 1% do fancy dress!!!”
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UK and Irish slang — Cockney, Scouse, Geordie, Yorkshire, Glaswegian, Brummie, Welsh, West Country, plus Irish English. Centuries of regional dialects feeding into modern British and Irish street talk.
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It's a trick question, they are all squirrels just two are in fancy dress because it's Halloween.
“Mum called with great excitement saying that she had found some sweeties shaped like eyeballs, I thought she was buying them for the grandchildren but it turns out she is in Lourdes and there is a fancy dress competition tonight and she is now going as St Lucy. catholic fun.”
(UK, Australia) A costume, disguise to masquerade as something or someone else.
And yet here he was, if one could credit one's senses, about to take part in a fancy-dress ball, a form of entertainment notoriously a testing experience for the toughest. And he was attending that fancy-dress ball, mark you--not, like e…
Fancy dress means: A costume, disguise to masquerade as something or someone else.. It is mainly Australian English and may not be understood outside that context. It has drug-related associations; worth a calm conversation about which side of the topic your teen is on. If your teen uses it, context will usually make the intent clear. A short, curious question about where they heard it is usually all that is needed to know whether to follow up.
fancy dress means: A costume, disguise to masquerade as something or someone else.. Register: very informal, often derogatory or vulgar. Avoid in formal, business, academic, or polite writing. Even in casual speech the word can offend and is best left out of a learner's active vocabulary. A common learner mistake is using the word in a register it does not fit, or assuming a single global meaning; native speakers immediately notice when slang appears in formal contexts, so always check the surrounding register before producing it yourself.
“It's a trick question, they are all squirrels just two are in fancy dress because it's Halloween.”