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dandiprat
[ dan-dee-prat ]
noun
- a silver coin of 16th-century England, equal to about twopence.
- Archaic.
- a diminutive person; a dwarf.
- a person of small or childish mind; a silly, finicky, or puerile person.
- a child.
dandiprat
/ ˈdændɪˌpræt /
noun
- a small English coin minted in the 16th century
- archaic.
- a small boy
- an insignificant person
Word History and Origins
Origin of dandiprat1
Word History and Origins
Origin of dandiprat1
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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