Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A little fellow; an urchin; a dwarf: a word of fondness or contempt.
- noun A small silver coin formerly current in England, equal to three halfpence.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A little fellow; -- in sport or contempt.
- noun A small coin.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete An
English coin worth three half-pence - noun dated An
insignificant orcontemptible person
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Examples
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And then she remembered, with a fluttering heart, that she was likely to become a great lady and the peer of this fascinating dandiprat.
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Therewithal she rightly apprehends the danger Bertram is in from the wordy, cozening squirt, the bedizened, scoundrelly dandiprat, who has so beguiled his youth and ignorance.
Shakespeare His Life Art And Characters Hudson, H N 1872
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Therewithal she rightly apprehends the danger Bertram is in from the wordy, cozening squirt, the bedizened, scoundrelly dandiprat, who has so beguiled his youth and ignorance.
Shakespeare: His Life, Art, And Characters, Volume I. With An Historical Sketch Of The Origin And Growth Of The Drama In England Henry Norman Hudson 1850
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a son, even "if he had been a _cockney dandiprat_" (1582).
Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook Ebenezer Cobham Brewer 1853
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"Yes, you did, my dear; and it was not an easy thing for my dandiprat to do.
Jack And Jill Alcott, Louisa May, 1832-1888 1902
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I guess you 're not sorry to see an old friend's face, are you. now that the dandiprat redcoats you've been gallivanting with have shown that they prefer running away to fighting? "was his greeting, as he held out his hand.
Janice Meredith Paul Leicester Ford 1883
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Arcangeli may crow over him, as it is, for having been kept by him a month at bay -- though even this much was not his doing; the little dandiprat Spreti was the real man. "
A Handbook to the Works of Browning (6th ed.) Sutherland Orr 1865
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"Yes, you did, my dear; and it was not an easy thing for my dandiprat to do.
Jack and Jill Louisa May Alcott 1860
jaime_d commented on the word dandiprat
from the Ring and the Book. a lovely word for an urchin.
October 1, 2007
reesetee commented on the word dandiprat
Also, a silver coin of 16th-century England, equal to about twopence.
October 16, 2007
yarb commented on the word dandiprat
Citation on doit.
March 6, 2010