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dandy's stick en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of dandy stick.
    • There the beauty’s word supreme is, There the dandy’s stick is twirl’d: “All the world’s a stage;” my theme is— All the stage a world! 1880, H. Savile Clarke, editor Clement W. Scott, Stories of the Stage, part 2 “The Green Room”, poem “The Stage World”, second page 34
    • He saw me backing towards the trap and rapped over my heedless shoulders his dandy’s stick, saying to Dick Townsend: “There’s a Johnny Look-in-the-Air for you!” 1920, James Gibbons Huneker, Steeplejack, page 83:
    • They traded blows with wooden swords, Grey getting the better of him with every strike. “Stop treating the sword as a tool.” He grabbed at his groin. “Use it like you do your own cock, man. It’s an extension of yourself, not a dandy’s stick.” 2011, Maria Zannini, chapter 36, in Apocalypse Rising, Carina Press, →ISBN: