different between dandyish vs finical

English

dandy +? -ish

dandyish (comparative more dandyish, superlative most dandyish)

Characteristic of or resembling the style of a dandy.
- 1916, James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Chapter 2,^[1]
  The latter was a stranger to him but in the darkness, by the aid of the glowing cigarette tips, he could make out a pale dandyish face over which a smile was travelling slowly, a tall overcoated figure and a hard hat.
- 2004, Alan Hollinghurst, The Line of Beauty, Bloomsbury, 2005, Chapter 3,
  As he crossed the drawing room he acknowledged himself with a flattered smile in a mirror. He was wearing a wing collar, and something dandyish in him, some memory of the licence and discipline of being in a play, lifted his mood.

University slang, probably from fine.

finical (comparative more finical, superlative most finical)

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