trendy, a. and n.
(ˈtrɛndɪ)
[f. trend n. + -y1.]
A. adj. Fashionable, up to date, following the latest trend. (Sometimes dismissively.)
| 1962 Punch 7 Nov. 654/3, I saw the headline ‘The Trendiest Twin Set’. 1965 Sun 20 May 7/6 The BBC's Debussy film..must have been the first to use the screen credit ‘Art Nouveau Consultant’... This is trying to be trendy: what's wrong with art-adviser? 1972 Lancet 20 May 1104/1 Pathobiology (a trendy name for general pathology) seems to be a fashionable subject in the United States. 1977 B. Pym Quartet in Autumn viii. 74 That was how it had always been and how it would go on in spite of trendy clergy trying to introduce so-called up-to-date forms of worship. 1982 Chicago Sun-Times 11 Nov. 88 (heading) Bargains still available in trendy neighborhoods. |
B. n. One who follows the latest trends or fashions.
| 1968 J. Fleming Kill or Cure xi. 143 She was well in with what is now called the Chelsea set.., there are trendies and personae non gratae amongst them. 1971 New Scientist 26 Aug. 450/1 Amphetamine..to the young trendy..provides a means of staying awake all night. 1974 Courier-Mail (Brisbane) 30 Mar. 8/3 Some of us have fought all our lives to be trendies. 1982 Listener 16 Dec. 20/2 The ‘trendies'’ concern for the individual seems to relate more to his place in society than to his soul. |