dandy : Idioms & Phrases

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Dandy brush

  • a yard whalebone brush.
Webster 1913

Dandy fever

  • noun an infectious disease of the tropics transmitted by mosquitoes and characterized by rash and aching head and joints
    dengue fever; dengue; breakbone fever.
WordNet
  • . See Dengue.
Webster 1913

Dandy line

  • a kind of fishing line to which are attached several crosspieces of whalebone which carry a hook at each end.
Webster 1913

Dandy roller

  • a roller sieve used in machines for making paper, to press out water from the pulp, and set the paper.
Webster 1913

dandy-cock

Dan"dy-cock` noun masculine, Dan"dy-hen` noun feminine (Also<
  • Dandy-cock
  • Dandy-hen
)
Etymology
See Dandy.
Definitions
  1. A bantam fowl.
Webster 1913

handyy-dandy

Handy"y-dan`dy noun
Definitions
  1. A child's play, one child guessing in which closed hand the other holds some small object, winning the object if right and forfeiting an equivalent if wrong; hence, forfeit. Piers Plowman.
Webster 1913

jack-a-dandy

Jack`-a-dan"dy noun
Definitions
  1. A little dandy; a little, foppish, impertinent fellow.
Webster 1913