dandyn.1adj.adv.
/ˈdandi/, U.S. /ˈdændi/ A. n.1
I. A person who dresses fashionably, and related uses.
1.
a. One who studies above everything to dress elegantly and fashionably; a beau, fop, ‘exquisite’.
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the mind > attention and judgement > fashionableness > [noun] > dandy
popa1500
miniona1513
prick-me-daintya1529
puppy?1544
velvet-coat1549
skipjack1554
coxcomb1567
musk cat?1567
physbuttocke1570
Adonis?1571
Adon1590
foretop1597
musk-cod1600
pretty fellow1600
sparkc1600
spangle-baby1602
flash1605
barber-monger1608
cocoloch1610
dapperling1611
fantastica1613
feather-cock1612
trig1612
jack-a-dandy?1617
gimcrack1623
satinist1639
powder puffa1653
fop1676
prig1676
foplinga1681
cockcomb1684
beau garçona1687
shape1688
duke1699
nab1699
smirk1699
beau1700
petty master1706
moppet1707
Tom Astoner1707
dapper1709
petit maître1711
buck1725
toupee1727
toupet1728
toupet-man1748
jemmy1753
jessamy1753
macaroni1764
majoc1770
monkeyrony1773
dandyc1780
elegant1780
muscadin1794
incroyable1797
beauty man1800
bang-up1811
natty1818
ruffian1818
exquisite1819
heavy swell1819
marvellous1819
bit of stuff1828
merveilleux1830
fat1832
squirt1844
dandyling1846
ineffable1859
guinea pig1860
Dundreary swell1862
masher1872
dude1877
mash1879
dudette1883
dand1886
heavy gunner1890
posh1890
nut1904
smoothie1929
fancy-pants1930
saga boy1941
fancy Dan1943
c1780 Sc. Song in Notes & Queries 8th Ser. IV. 81) I've heard my granny crack O' sixty twa years back When there were sic a stock of Dandies O; Oh they gaed to Kirk and Fair, Wi' their ribbons round their hair, And their stumpie drugget coats, quite the Dandy O.
1788 R. Galloway Poems 89 They..laugh at ilka dandy, At that fair day.
1818 T. Moore Fudge Family in Paris i. 48 They've made him a Dandy, A thing, you know, whiskered, great-coated, and laced, Like an hour~glass, exceedingly small in the waist.
1819 R. Anderson et al. Ballads in Cumberland Dial. 148 I..went owre to see Carel Fair; I'd heard monie teales o' thur dandies—Odswinge! how they mek the fwok stare!
1834 T. Carlyle Sartor Resartus iii. x. 97/2 A Dandy is a Clothes-wearing Man, a Man whose trade, office, and existence consists in the wearing of Clothes.
1874 G. W. Dasent Half a Life II. 65 Like the cabriolets which some dandies still drive.
b. Said of animals and things.
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1835 G. Stephen Adventures in Search of Horse ii. 18 I mounted many a slug and many another dandy before I again ventured to buy.
1885 J. Runciman Skippers & Shellbacks 54 The barque looked a real dandy.
2. slang or colloquial. Anything superlatively fine, neat, or dainty; esp. in the dandy (now usually a dandy), ‘the correct thing’, ‘the ticket’. Also colloquial. for dandy: for effect.
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the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > excellence > [noun] > excellent thing
starOE
dainty1340
daisyc1485
say-piece1535
bravery1583
paragon1585
daint1633
rapper1653
supernaculum1704
dandy1785
roarer1813
sneezer1823
plum1825
trimmer1827
sockdolager1838
rasper1844
dinger1861
job1863
fizzer1866
champagne1880
beauty1882
pie1884
twanger1889
smasher1894
crackerjack1895
Taj Mahal1895
beaut1896
pearler1901
lollapalooza1904
bearcat1909
beaner1911
grande dame1915
Rolls-Royce1916
the nuts1917
pipperoo1939
rubydazzler1941
rumpty1941
rumptydooler1941
snodger1941
sockeroo1942
sweetheart1942
zinger1955
blue-chipper1957
ring-a-ding1959
premier cru1965
sharpie1970
stormer1978
1785 G. Colman Two to One i. ii. 14 Her breath is like the rose; and the pretty little mouth Of pretty little Tippet is the dandy,—O!
1814 Apollo in Notes & Queries 6th Ser. IX. 136 For marriage to old maids is the dandy, O.
1822 Pennsylv. Intelligencer 3 Dec. The reader will suppose this was a dandy of a thing, since it was on writing paper.
1832 W. Stephenson Coll. Local Poems, Songs, &c. 105 A cure for coughs I know, It will prove the dandy.
1837–40 T. C. Haliburton Clockmaker (1862) 340 The new railroad will be jist the dandy for you.
1887 Amer. Angler XII. 360 I had the largest, the dandy, and was satisfied.
1887 Harper's Mag. June 160/1 ‘Death loves a shining mark’, and she hit a dandy when she turned loose on Jim.
1897 S. Hale Lett. (1919) 319 Mrs. B. was a dandy, she didn't fuss nor worry.
1897 M. Kingsley Trav. W. Afr. 387 I go to bed early, thankfully observing that the gay mosquito curtain is entirely ‘for dandy’—decorative and not defensive.
1919 H. L. Wilson Ma Pettengill iv. 111 It was just one punch, though a dandy.
1968 D. Helwig in R. Weaver Canad. Short Stories 2nd Ser. 376 We..sat..waiting for Barrow Man to light his fire. At nine-fifteen he did it. It was a dandy.
II. Technical and other senses; apparently transferred applications of preceding to things considered neat, trim, or ‘tidy’ in form or action.1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products Dandy-rigged-cutter.1883 Official Catal. Internat. Fisheries Exhib. (ed. 4) 132 An elliptical stern Dandy-rig Fishing-boat.1891 Daily News 15 Dec. 5/6 His smack..dandy-rigged, and of only thirty-seven tons, was again overtaken by a storm.
3. Nautical. ‘A sloop or cutter with a jigger-mast abaft, on which a mizen-lug-sail is set’ (Smyth, Sailor's Word-bk.). Hence dandy-rig, dandy-rigged adjs.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > vessel propelled by sail > [noun] > vessel with specific number of masts > types of vessel with two masts > yawl > types of
dandy1858
jigger1860
1858 Mercantile Marine Mag. 5 134 Dandy 3, Flats 4.
1880 Daily News 12 Nov. 3/7 Busy Bee, fishing dandy, of Lowestoft, struck on a wreck and foundered.
1886 Times 2 Jan. 3 The lifeboats..dandy Snowdrop, of Ramsgate..dandy Lady's Page, of Scarborough..dandy Seabird, of Yarmouth, saved vessel and six.
4. Nautical. A piece of mechanism, resembling a small capstan, used for hoisting the trawl. Hence dandy-span n. the handlebar by which a dandy is worked.
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1883 Great Internat. Fisheries Exhib. Catal. 10 Bridles, Dandies..Hauling Lines, and Running Gear.
1883 Great Internat. Fisheries Exhib. Catal. 12 Manilla Bridles..Dandy Span.
5. dialect. A bantam fowl. ( dandy-cock, dandy-hen.)
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1828 W. Carr Dial. Craven (ed. 2) Dandy-cock, a bantam cock, a diminutive species of poultry.
1884 R. Holland Gloss. Words County of Chester (1886) Dandy, a bantam. The sexes are specified as dandy-cock and dandy-hen.
1887 T. Darlington Folk-speech S. Cheshire ‘Hey struts abowt like a dandy-cock.’
6. Irish English. A small jug; a small glass (of whisky).
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the world > food and drink > drink > containers for drink > [noun] > jug
skinker1594
dandy1838
1838 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. May (Farmer) ‘Father Tom and the Pope’. Dimidium cyathi vero apud Metropolitanos Hibernicos dicitur dandy.
1859 All Year Round 16 July 285 Take a dandy—there's no headache in Irish whisky.
7.
a. In various other technical applications; e.g. a handy accessory to various machines or structures; a running-out fire for melting pig-iron in tin-plate manufacture; a small false grate fitted for purposes of economy into an ordinary grate or fireplace; a light iron hand-cart used to carry coke to a blast furnace; also short for dandy-cart n., dandy-roller n.
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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > cart, carriage, or wagon > cart or wagon for conveying goods > [noun] > types of > cart (usually two-wheeled) > with springs > specific type
Whitechapel cart1839
Whitechapel1842
dandy1850
dandy-cart1861
1850 F. Trollope Petticoat Govt. 13 She blew a small dandy-ful of shavings and cinders into warmth, for the purpose of causing the water in her diminutive kettle to boil.
1851 Rep. Juries of Exhibition 428 A channelled and perforated roller technically called a ‘dandy’, to remove part of the water from the pulp.
1875 R. Hunt & F. W. Rudler Ure's Dict. Arts (ed. 7) III. 490 The two rollers following the dandy..are termed couching-rollers.
1884 W. H. Greenwood Steel & Iron 276 Price's puddling furnace..consists of a bed or hearth at one end of which is a chamber or dandy in which the pig-iron is first placed for preliminary heating.
1892 Melbourne Age 31 Dec. 10/1 (advt.) Milk dandy, good, high wheels, half cost.
b. attributive and in other combinations.
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1881 Instr. Census Clerks (1885) 42 Dandy Roll and Dandy Roll Mould Maker.
1895 Daily News 19 June 9/3 Dandy rolls,..all kinds of machinery apparatus and fittings used in the trade of a paper-maker's engineer and dandy roll maker.
1921 Dict. Occup. Terms (1927) § 363 Rover, dandy; dandy minder..minds dandy roving frame, which further attenuates and twists slubbing from gill roving frame.
B. adj.
1. Of, belonging to, or characteristic of a dandy or dandies; of the nature of a dandy; affectedly neat, trim, or smart.
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the mind > attention and judgement > fashionableness > [adjective] > dandyish
quaintc1330
skipjack1598
satin1603
coxcombly1610
prigginga1627
coxcombical1649
skipjackly1674
jessamy1696
beauish1699
foppish1699
priggish1701
Jemmy Jessamine1786
macaronian1792
buckish1806
dandy1813
dandified1826
dandyish1826
Brummellian1829
dandyic1832
dandiacal1834
squirtish1843
macaronyish1858
fine-gentlemanish1865
foppy1878
dude1879
dudish1883
fancy1891
1813 Ld. Byron Let. 25 July (1974) III. 80 The season has closed with a Dandy Ball.
1821 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto V cxliii. 206 Even a Dandy's dandiest chatter.
1824 M. R. Mitford Our Village I. 147 The stiff cravat, the pinched-in waist, the dandy walk.
1848 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair lx. 541 A dandy little hand in a kid-glove.
1887 A. Jessopp Arcady 194 They..had the dandy youths taught how to ride.
2. Fine, splendid, first-rate. colloquial (originally U.S.). Frequently in fine and dandy.
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the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > excellence > [adjective]
faireOE
bremea1000
goodlyOE
goodfulc1275
noblec1300
pricec1300
specialc1325
gentlec1330
fine?c1335
singulara1340
thrivena1350
thriven and throa1350
gaya1375
properc1380
before-passinga1382
daintiful1393
principala1398
gradelya1400
burlyc1400
daintyc1400
thrivingc1400
voundec1400
virtuousc1425
hathelc1440
curiousc1475
singlerc1500
beautiful1502
rare?a1534
gallant1539
eximious1547
jolly1548
egregious?c1550
jellyc1560
goodlike1562
brawc1565
of worth1576
brave?1577
surprising1580
finger-licking1584
admirablea1586
excellinga1586
ambrosial1598
sublimated1603
excellent1604
valiant1604
fabulous1609
pure1609
starryc1610
topgallant1613
lovely1614
soaringa1616
twanging1616
preclarent1623
primea1637
prestantious1638
splendid1644
sterling1647
licking1648
spankinga1666
rattling1690
tearing1693
famous1695
capital1713
yrare1737
pure and —1742
daisy1757
immense1762
elegant1764
super-extra1774
trimming1778
grand1781
gallows1789
budgeree1793
crack1793
dandy1794
first rate1799
smick-smack1802
severe1805
neat1806
swell1810
stamming1814
divine1818
great1818
slap-up1823
slapping1825
high-grade1826
supernacular1828
heavenly1831
jam-up1832
slick1833
rip-roaring1834
boss1836
lummy1838
flash1840
slap1840
tall1840
high-graded1841
awful1843
way up1843
exalting1844
hot1845
ripsnorting1846
clipping1848
stupendous1848
stunning1849
raving1850
shrewd1851
jammy1853
slashing1854
rip-staving1856
ripping1858
screaming1859
up to dick1863
nifty1865
premier cru1866
slap-bang1866
clinking1868
marvellous1868
rorty1868
terrific1871
spiffing1872
all wool and a yard wide1882
gorgeous1883
nailing1883
stellar1883
gaudy1884
fizzing1885
réussi1885
ding-dong1887
jim-dandy1888
extra-special1889
yum-yum1890
out of sight1891
outasight1893
smooth1893
corking1895
large1895
super1895
hot dog1896
to die for1898
yummy1899
deevy1900
peachy1900
hi1901
v.g.1901
v.h.c.1901
divvy1903
doozy1903
game ball1905
goodo1905
bosker1906
crackerjack1910
smashinga1911
jake1914
keen1914
posh1914
bobby-dazzling1915
juicy1916
pie on1916
jakeloo1919
snodger1919
whizz-bang1920
wicked1920
four-star1921
wow1921
Rolls-Royce1922
whizz-bang1922
wizard1922
barry1923
nummy1923
ripe1923
shrieking1926
crazy1927
righteous1930
marvy1932
cool1933
plenty1933
brahmaa1935
smoking1934
solid1935
mellow1936
groovy1937
tough1937
bottler1938
fantastic1938
readyc1938
ridge1938
super-duper1938
extraordinaire1940
rumpty1940
sharp1940
dodger1941
grouse1941
perfecto1941
pipperoo1945
real gone1946
bosting1947
supersonic1947
whizzo1948
neato1951
peachy-keen1951
ridgey-dite1953
ridgy-didge1953
top1953
whizzing1953
badass1955
wild1955
belting1956
magic1956
bitching1957
swinging1958
ridiculous1959
a treat1959
fab1961
bad-assed1962
uptight1962
diggish1963
cracker1964
marv1964
radical1964
bakgat1965
unreal1965
pearly1966
together1968
safe1970
bad1971
brilliant1971
fabby1971
schmick1972
butt-kicking1973
ripper1973
Tiffany1973
bodacious1976
rad1976
kif1978
awesome1979
death1979
killer1979
fly1980
shiok1980
stonking1980
brill1981
dope1981
to die1982
mint1982
epic1983
kicking1983
fabbo1984
mega1985
ill1986
posho1989
pukka1991
lovely jubbly1992
awesomesauce2001
nang2002
bess2006
amazeballs2009
boasty2009
daebak2009
beaut2013
1794 Massachusetts Spy 27 Aug. My uncle Cuthbert blew out a prodigious puff of my dandy tobacco.
1842 W. Bagley Let. 22 June in N. E. Eliason Tarheel Talk (1956) iv. 128 I now have a real dandy suit of clothes & I step about New York just as if I was some great one.
1894 P. L. Ford Hon. Peter Stirling (1898) 163 ‘If I was as big as him,’ said one, ‘I'd fire all the peelers.’ ‘Wouldn't that be dandy?’ cried another.
1908 C. E. Mulford Orphan vi. 73 I got yore smokin', Orphant!.. Here she is, right side up and fine and dandy!
1910 S. E. White Rules of Game i. i ‘How's Mrs. Orde..?’ he inquired. ‘Mrs. Orde is fine and dandy.’
1926 ‘R. Crompton’ William—the Conqueror v. 83 Oh, how dandy!
1940 War Illustr. 5 Jan. 571/1 The troops had told the Dominions Secretary that the crossing had been ‘dandy’, and the General told us the same thing.
1940 O. Nash Face is Familiar 259 Candy is dandy But liquor is quicker.
1964 P. G. Wodehouse Frozen Assets ii. 31 I'm fine and dandy now, but before I saw you I was feeling extremely blue.
C. adv.
Finely, splendidly. U.S. colloquial.
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the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > excellence > [adverb]
fairlyOE
goodlyc1275
finec1330
properlyc1390
daintily?a1400
thrivinglya1400
goodlily?1457
excellent1483
excellently1527
excellently1529
curiously1548
jollilyc1563
admirably1570
beautifully1570
singularly1576
bravelyc1600
famouslya1616
manlya1616
primely1622
prime1648
eximiously1650
topping1683
egregiously1693
purely1695
trimmingly1719
toppinglya1739
surprisingly1749
capitally1750
brawly1796
jellily18..
stammingly1814
divinely1822
stunningly1823
rippingly1828
jam up1835
out of sight1835
first-rately1843
first rate1844
like a charm1845
stunning1851
marvellously1859
magnificently1868
first class1871
splendidly1883
sterlingly1883
tip-top1888
like one o'clock1901
deevily1905
goodo1907
dandy1908
bonzer1914
great1916
juicily1916
corkingly1917
champion1925
unbeatably1928
snodger1946
beaut1953
smashingly1956
groovily1970
awesome1984
1908 S. E. White Riverman xli. 323 ‘She's holding strong and dandy,’ said Orde.., examining critically the clumps of piles.
1952 in H. Wentworth & S. B. Flexner Dict. Amer. Slang (1960) 140/1 She and her husband get along just dandy.
1963 O. Nash Everyone but Thee & Me 110 And, should Furnace or freezer act less than dandy, There's always a quaint old handy-man handy.
Compounds
ˈdandy-jack v. to play the jack-a-dandy.Apparently an isolated use.
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the mind > attention and judgement > fashionableness > [verb (intransitive)] > play the dandy
gallant1608
dandyize1830
dandy-jack1887
1887 G. M. Fenn Master of Cerem. xi ‘My, he do go dandy-jacking along the cliff.’
ˈdandy-land n. [compare fairyland n.] the (imaginary) land of dandies.Apparently an isolated use.
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the mind > attention and judgement > fashionableness > [noun] > dandy > world of
dandy-land1831
1831 T. Moore Summer Fête 498 Two Exquisites, a he and she, Just brought from Dandyland, and meant For Fashion's grand Menagerie.
Derivatives
ˈdandyhood n. the state or style of a dandy.Apparently an isolated use.
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the mind > attention and judgement > fashionableness > [noun] > dandy > style or condition of
wantonnessc1405
beauship1696
foppery1697
beauetry1702
foppishness1741
buckism1753
macaronism1775
buckishness1803
dandiness1819
dandyism1819
petit maitreship1822
dandyhood1823
petit maitreism1824
dandification1827
exquisitism1833
beauism1844
dandydomc1850
tigerishness1869
dudedom1883
dudeism1883
dudery1883
dudeness1884
1823 New Monthly Mag. 7 229 Prank'd out in dandihood withal To the top pitch of fashion's folly.
ˈdandyic adj. dandyish.Apparently an isolated use.
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the mind > attention and judgement > fashionableness > [adjective] > dandyish
quaintc1330
skipjack1598
satin1603
coxcombly1610
prigginga1627
coxcombical1649
skipjackly1674
jessamy1696
beauish1699
foppish1699
priggish1701
Jemmy Jessamine1786
macaronian1792
buckish1806
dandy1813
dandified1826
dandyish1826
Brummellian1829
dandyic1832
dandiacal1834
squirtish1843
macaronyish1858
fine-gentlemanish1865
foppy1878
dude1879
dudish1883
fancy1891
1832 Fraser's Mag. 5 171 Done..not with philosophic, permanent colours, but with mere dandyic ochre and japan.
ˈdandily adv.
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the mind > attention and judgement > fashionableness > [adverb] > dandyishly
coxcombically1654
priggishly1721
buckishly1820
dandily1834
dandyishly1868
foppishly1876
1834 Fraser's Mag. 9 147 We were not so dandily dressed.
ˈdandiness n.
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the mind > attention and judgement > fashionableness > [noun] > dandy > style or condition of
wantonnessc1405
beauship1696
foppery1697
beauetry1702
foppishness1741
buckism1753
macaronism1775
buckishness1803
dandiness1819
dandyism1819
petit maitreship1822
dandyhood1823
petit maitreism1824
dandification1827
exquisitism1833
beauism1844
dandydomc1850
tigerishness1869
dudedom1883
dudeism1883
dudery1883
dudeness1884
1819 R. Southey Select. from Lett. (1856) III. 473 The first two numbers..displeased me as much by their dandiness as ——'s does by its blackguardism.
ˈdandyize v. (a) intransitive (rare) to play the dandy; (b) transitive= dandify v.
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the mind > attention and judgement > fashionableness > [verb (intransitive)] > play the dandy
gallant1608
dandyize1830
dandy-jack1887
1830 Fraser's Mag. 2 200 We have dandyised in our time with the..turbaned exquisites of..Stamboul.
1834 T. Carlyle Sartor Resartus iii. x. 102/2 Those Dandiacal Manicheans, with the host of Dandyising Christians, will form one body.
1846 in J. E. Worcester Universal Dict. Eng. Lang. Dandyize.
ˈdandyling n. a diminutive or petty dandy.Apparently an isolated use.
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the mind > attention and judgement > fashionableness > [noun] > dandy
popa1500
miniona1513
prick-me-daintya1529
puppy?1544
velvet-coat1549
skipjack1554
coxcomb1567
musk cat?1567
physbuttocke1570
Adonis?1571
Adon1590
foretop1597
musk-cod1600
pretty fellow1600
sparkc1600
spangle-baby1602
flash1605
barber-monger1608
cocoloch1610
dapperling1611
fantastica1613
feather-cock1612
trig1612
jack-a-dandy?1617
gimcrack1623
satinist1639
powder puffa1653
fop1676
prig1676
foplinga1681
cockcomb1684
beau garçona1687
shape1688
duke1699
nab1699
smirk1699
beau1700
petty master1706
moppet1707
Tom Astoner1707
dapper1709
petit maître1711
buck1725
toupee1727
toupet1728
toupet-man1748
jemmy1753
jessamy1753
macaroni1764
majoc1770
monkeyrony1773
dandyc1780
elegant1780
muscadin1794
incroyable1797
beauty man1800
bang-up1811
natty1818
ruffian1818
exquisite1819
heavy swell1819
marvellous1819
bit of stuff1828
merveilleux1830
fat1832
squirt1844
dandyling1846
ineffable1859
guinea pig1860
Dundreary swell1862
masher1872
dude1877
mash1879
dudette1883
dand1886
heavy gunner1890
posh1890
nut1904
smoothie1929
fancy-pants1930
saga boy1941
fancy Dan1943
1846 J. E. Worcester Universal Dict. Eng. Lang. Dandyling, a little dandy; a ridiculous fop. Qu. Rev.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
dandyn.2
West Indies.
= dengue n. Also dandy-fever.The popular name given to the fever on its first appearance in the West Indies in 1827.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > fever > [noun] > dengue
dandy1828
dengue1828
break-bone fever1862
three-day fever1897
o'nyong-nyong1960
the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of visible parts > eruptive diseases > [noun] > dengue
dandy1828
dengue1828
break-bone fever1862
three-day fever1897
o'nyong-nyong1960
1828 Stedman in Edinb. Med. & Surg. Jrnl. 30 227 As it was unknown to the faculty, the vulgar, as commonly happens, gave it names of their own; and ridiculous as they may sound, they soon became the only appellations of the new malady. The English negroes in St. Thomas called it the Dandy Fever, while the French vulgar called it the Bouquet, which again was corrupted into the Bucket.
1830 Furlonge Edinb. Med. & Surg. Jrnl. 33 51 (title) A few remarks on the Dandy which prevailed in the West Indies towards the close of 1827 and beginning of 1828.
1869 E. A. Parkes Man. Pract. Hygiene (ed. 3) 573 ‘Dandy fever’, or break-bone (Dengue), has prevailed several times.
1880 C. H. Fagge & P. H. Pye-Smith Text Bk. Med. The negroes called the new disease ‘Dandy-fever’, apparently in ridicule of the attitude and gait of the patient.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online March 2021).
dandydandin.3
/ˈdandi/, U.S. /ˈdændi/ Anglo-Indian.
1. A boatman of the Ganges.
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society > travel > travel by water > one who travels by water or sea > sailor > types of sailor > [noun] > boatman or waterman > on the Ganges
dandy1685
1685 W. Hedges Diary 6 Jan. (1887) I. 175 Our Dandees (or boatmen) boyled their rice.
1763 W. Hastings in J. Long Select. Rec. Govt. relating to Bengal (1869) 347 They..plundered and seized the Dandies and Mangies' vessel.
1816 Mrs. Sherwood Ayah & Lady ix. 51 To make sport for the dandies, and other people in the boat.
1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Dandies, rowers of the budgerow boats on the Ganges.
2. (Dandi.) A S'aiva mendicant who carries a small wand (F. Hall).
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the mind > possession > poverty > mendicancy > [noun] > beggar > Muslim or Hindu (religious)
fakir1609
sanyasi1613
calender1638
Pandaram1710
Naga1828
dandy1832
1832 H. H. Wilson in Asiatic Researches 17 173 The Dań'dí is distinguished by carrying a small dań'd, or wand, with several processes or projections.
1862 H. Beveridge Comprehensive Hist. India II. iv. ii. 74 The Dandis, distinguished by carrying a small dand or wand.
3. ‘A kind of vehicle used in the Himalaya, consisting of a strong cloth slung like a hammock to a bamboo staff, and carried by two (or more) men [ dandy-wallahs]’ (Yule).
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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > conveyance carried by person or animal > [noun] > litter
litterc1330
saumbury1393
cabin1587
palanquin1588
norimon1616
dooliec1625
sedan1646
pavilion1656
takhtrawan1671
go-cart1676
palki1678
portantina1758
muncheel1807
machila1833
kago1857
dandy1870
1870 C. F. Gordon Cumming in Good Words 135/1 As the darkness closed in, my dandy-wallahs stumbled, so that I had to give up the attempt to use the dandy, and struggle on on foot.
1888 Times 2 July 5/2 Major Battye and Captain Urmston joined the rear and placed the wounded man in a dandy.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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