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dandiprat

[ dan-dee-prat ]

noun

  1. a silver coin of 16th-century England, equal to about twopence.
  2. Archaic.
    1. a diminutive person; a dwarf.
    2. a person of small or childish mind; a silly, finicky, or puerile person.
    3. a child.


dandiprat

/ ˈdændɪˌpræt /

noun

  1. a small English coin minted in the 16th century
  2. archaic.
    1. a small boy
    2. an insignificant person
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of dandiprat1

First recorded in 1510–20; origin uncertain
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Word History and Origins

Origin of dandiprat1

C16: of unknown origin
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Example Sentences

The epic’s hero, for instance, is introduced as “a cockney dandiprat hopthumb,/ Prittye lad Aeneas.”

This term, which has been recently applied to a species of reptile very common in the metropolis, appears to have arisen from a small silver coin struck by King Henry VII., of little value, called a dandiprat; and hence Bishop Fleetwood observes the term is applied to worthless and contemptible persons.”

But this I ghesse: being then a dandiprat, Some witty Poet took him on his lap, And fed him, from above, with some choice bit.

And then she remembered, with a fluttering heart, that she was likely to become a great lady and the peer of this fascinating dandiprat.

Lady Fortune has played me a scurvy trick; but may she not to-morrow play as roguish a one to the Sheepfaced old Chamber Lord with the golden Key, or any other smart Pink-an-eye Dandiprat that hangs about the Court?

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