dandy stick

Noun

dandy stick (plural dandy sticks)

1. (obsolete) walking stick
   • He ran after the depredator that had been pointed out to him, and struck him with his dandy stick so smartly that he broke at once his own cane, and the assaulted man’s temper, for, turning fiercely round, the person exclaimed, “Who are you, you ruffian who dare to strike me?”1833, March 30, Samuel Lover, The Irish Penny Magazine, article “Illustrations of National Proverbs.—No. VII”, page 102
   • To figure a New York judge aright, and to describe his costume in its true colors, I would dress him in a bottle-green velvet shooting-coat, with a crimson cravat, a flashy diamond to his shirt, and with light gray or yellow trousers; for the “ray of glory about his head,” I would put a jaunty...1869, November, Philip Quilibet, The Galaxy: an Illustrated Magazine of Entertaining Reading, volume 8, article “Drift-Wood”, page 709