D and D, phr. (police).—‘Drunk and disorderly’ (in connection with
charge sheet cases). A synonym is Lushy and Stropolus.
1889. Answers, 2 March, p. 218, col. 1. Last New Year’s Day he took
over 14s. to my certain knowledge, for the old man was up for d and
d, trying to break a window with his broom.
Dander, subs. (colloquial).—Anger. To raise one’s dander or Get one’s
dander up or riz = to make or get angry. [Derivation uncertain;
provincial in several English counties.]
1843. Dickens, Martin Chuzzlewit, ch. xxi., p. 223. I do my duty;
and I raise the dander of my feller critters, as I wish to serve;
... they rile up rough, along of my objecting to their selling Eden
off too cheap.
1848–62. J. Russell Lowell, Biglow Papers. Wut’ll make ye act like
freemen? Wut’ll git your dander riz?
1849. Thackeray, Pendennis, ch. xliii. Don’t talk to me about
daring to do this thing or t’other, or when my dander is up, it’s
the very thing to urge me on.
1863. Punch, 7 Feb. If John Bull had riz our dander, Settin’ foot
on yonder shore, Then we should have holler’d grander Than the
broad Atlantic’s roar.
1872. Chamb. Journal, 14 Dec., p. 791. They knew he’d never find
out who did it, for he was in such an awful dander.
Dandered, ppl. adj. (colloquial).—Angry; ‘mad.’
1890. H. D. Traill, Saturday Songs, ‘The Precipitate Grandmother,’
p. 30. Whose way of tackling dandered snakes Is to perpitiate the
critters With hominy an’ buckwheat cakes And pumpkin-squash an’
apple fritters.
Dando, subs. (common).—A great eater; a glutton; specifically a sharper
who subsists at the expense of hotels, restaurants, or oyster bars.
[From one dando, a ‘bouncing, seedy swell,’ hero of a hundred ballads,
notorious for being ‘charged’ at least twice a month with bilking.]
18(?). Thackeray, The Professor. ‘What a flat you are,’ shouted he
in a voice of thunder, ‘to think I’m agoing to pay! Pay! I never
pay—I’m Dando.’
1850. Macaulay, Journal in Life, by Trevelyan, ch. xii., p. 539
(1884), April 27.—To Westbourne Terrace, and passed an hour in
playing with Alice.... I was dando at a pastry cook’s and then at
an oyster shop.
1885. Ill. London News, 15 Aug., p. 154, col. 3. One day we are
told that the couplet should be:—Oysters, you’ll find, are best by
far In every month which ends with an r. Next day this is
pooh-poohed, and we are to read, instead:—Oysters, you’ll find, are
best by far In every month which contains an r. Spiritualists might
be kind enough to consult dando, who would, no doubt, have the true
version at his finger’s ends, so as to rap it out on the instant.
Dandy, subs. (formerly slang, now recognized).—1. A fop; a coxcomb; a
man who pays excessive attention to dress. The feminine forms,
‘dandilly’ and ‘dandizette,’ did not ‘catch on.’ Dandy was first
applied half in admiration, half in derision to a fop about the year
1816. John Bee (Slang Dict., 1823) says that Lord Petersham was the
chief of these successors to the departed Macaronis, and gives, as
their peculiarities, ‘French gait, lispings, wrinkled foreheads,
killing king’s English, wearing immense plaited pantaloons, coat cut
away, small waistcoat, cravat and chitterlings immense, hat small, hair
frizzled and protruding.’ In common English dandy has come to be
applied to such as are neat and careful in dressing according to
fashion. [From dandy-pratt (q.v.).]
English Synonyms. Beau; blade; blood; buck; chappie; corinthian; count;
court-card; cheese; daffy-down-dilly; dancing-master; dude; dundreary;
exquisite; flasher; fop; gallant; gommy; gorger; Jemmy Jessamy; Johnny;
lounger; macaroni; masher; mohawk; nerve; nicker; nizzie; nob; oatmeal;
scourer; smart; spark; sweater; swell; toff; tip-topper; tumbler;
yum-yun.
French Synonyms. Un gandin (popular = a frequenter of the old Boulevard
de Gand); un gommeux; un mouchard; un mouget; un petit maître; un
talon-rouge (from the red heels worn in the seventeenth century); un
incroyable (a ‘swell’ of the Directoire period, as also un
merveilleux); un mirliflore (an allusion to millefleurs, a favourite
perfume); un muscadin; un élégant; un dandy; un lion; un fashionable;
un cocodès; un crevé; un petit crevé; un col-cassé; un luisant; un
poisseux; un boudiné; un pschutteux; un exhumé; un gratiné; un
faucheur; un bécarre; un daim; un excellent bon; un fade; un fadard; un
gilet en cœur; un muguet (properly lily of the valley. Cf.,
daffy-down-dilly).
Spanish Synonyms. Don guindo; hopeo; pisaverde.
1818. Carlyle, in Early Letters (Norton), vol. I., p. 158. When I
walk along the streets, I see fair women ... and fops (dandies as
they are called in current slang), shaped like an
hour-glass—creatures whose life and death, as Crispin pithily
observes, ‘I esteem of like importance, and decline to speak of
either.’
1821. Coombe, Syntax, Wife, c. iv. I met just now, upon the stairs,
A dandy in his highest airs.
1835. Haliburton, Clockmaker, 2 S., ch. viii. Great dandy was Mr.
Bobbin; he looked just as if he had come out of the tailors’ hands.
1847. Lytton, Lucretia, pt. I., ch. i. What is now the dandy was
then [1780] the Buck.
1866. W. D. Howells, Venetian Life, ch. xx. He is a dandy, of
course,—all Italians are dandies,—but his vanity is perfectly
harmless, and his heart is not bad.
1890. Lord Lamington, The Days of the Dandies [Title].
2. (thieves’).—A bad gold coin. [In allusion to its careful make and
composition, this coin containing a certain proportion of pure gold.]
1883. Jas. Greenwood, Tag, Rag, and Co., p. 24. It is not in paltry
pewter ‘sours’ with which the young woman has dealings, but in
dandys, which, rendered into intelligible English, means imitation
gold coin—half-sovereigns and whole ones.