10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DANDIPRAT»
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dandiprat in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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Mr. Dandiprat, the dancing-master, madam. Mrs. Courtly. Well, desire him to walk
up. (The servant retires.) Bertha. No, annt ; let him be sent away to-day, I beg ; or I
shall once again fret Mr. Goodwin. Mrs. Courtly. He must absolutely see you ...
Berquin (M., Arnaud), 1787
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The Children's Friend. Being a Selection from the Works of ...
Dandiprat. That you may depend on, madam ; an'k I'll shew-my (kill too. : HMN.
Courtly. A-propos; for herehe comes. (To Mr: Goodwin entering) A chair for Mr.
Goodwin.-' Here-here, my' dear fir, you're come in time for Bertha's dancing
lesson ...
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The Gentleman's Magazine
If yeet soom progenie from me Had crawld, by the fathered, if a cockney
dandiprat hop-thumb, Prettye lad }Eneas, in my court wantoned, ere thow Tookst
this filthye fieing, that thee with phisnomye lykeued, I ne then had reckfiled myself
for ...
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Music in English Children's Drama of the Later Renaissance
Dandiprat. . . . Sirra thin-gut, what's thy name? Pilcher, My name? You chops,
why I am of the bloud of Pil- chers. Dandiprat. Nay s'foote, if one should kill thee,
hee could not be hang'd for' t, for hee would shed no bloud, there's none in thee:
...
Linda Phyllis Austern, 1992
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The Gentleman's Magazine
That the word means something diminutive is clear, from a child's book of
nonsensical verses, out of date many years since ; one of which begins, "Little
Jack Dandiprat was my first suitor," &c. And again, " Spick v spandj, Jacky Dandy,
" &c.
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GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE AND HISTORICAL CHRONICLE (JULY - ...
But from what source the word Dandy is derived seems hitherto That Dandy and
Dandiprat meant a term of reproach and ridicule, as above-said, we have
sufficient authority for. in Cotgrave's Dictionary (1650), it is defined by Manche d'
Estille, ...
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The Gentleman's Magazine, and Historical Chronicle, for the ...
That Dandy and Dandiprat meant Life and Exploits of Admiral Benbow. built ship,
of forty,. counties in England, as a defence against the gnals, which in those pi
ices are exceedingly troublesome, □o as wholly iv prevent a person from ...
Edward Cave, John Nichols, 1819
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The Routledge Dictionary of Historical Slang
dandiprat;. occ. dandyprat(t) . A person physically, socially, or morally very
insignificant: from ca 1550; coll till C.19. The anon. play Lingua, 1580; Scott, 1821
. Ex the C.16–18 sense, a small coin worth 1 d.
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Honest whore, by Dekker and Middleton. The witch. The widow, ...
There's no good fellowship in this dandiprat,o This dive-dapper,p as is in other
pages; They'd go a-swimming with me familiarly I' th' heat of summer, and clap
what-you-call-'ems; But I could never get that little monkey yet To put off his ...
Thomas Middleton, William Rowley, Thomas Dekker, 1840
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—Peter Siminski, “Adaptations of Desert Birds and Mammals,” The Encyclopedia
of Earth, December 17, 2009 Crepuscular is from the Latin words crepusculum,
meaning “twilight, dusk,” and creper, “dusky.” 33 dandiprat /(dan'dē prat)/ noun 1
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6 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «DANDIPRAT»
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Michael Dirda reviews 'The Pebble Chance,' by Marius Kociejowski
The epic's hero, for instance, is introduced as “a cockney dandiprat hopthumb,/ Prittye lad Aeneas.” I, for one, can hardly wait to locate a copy. «Washington Post, Jan 15»
SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN DWARFS Opens Today at …
... the vain and self-absorbed Queen Brangomar, Snow White's Maids of Honor, the Queen's clumsy flunkie, Madame Dandiprat, Berthold the ... «Broadway World, Sep 14»
Imagination Theater to Present SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN …
... the vain and self-absorbed Queen Bragomar, Snow White's Maid of Honor, the Queen's clumsy flunkie, Sir Dandiprat, Berthold the Huntsman ... «Broadway World, Aug 14»
Return of the dandy: Eccentric elegance is back
... Henry VII, of little value, called a dandiprat; and hence Bishop Fleetwood observes the term is applied to worthless and contemptible persons ... «Classic Driver, May 14»
West Brom 1 Hull City 1 - match report and pictures
Bully, you are right, I should ignore the yampy prat, (reminds me of a piece of music called 'Beckus The Dandiprat'). Frustrated he is most ... «expressandstar.com, Dec 13»
Fine and Dandy (In All Except Etymology)
But it may be observed that the time gap is significant: if dandy had been “abstracted” from dandiprat, it would probably have surfaced much ... «OUPblog, Nov 09»
