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dandyprat

dandyprat is the alternative form of dandiprat.

Meaning of dandiprat

Noun

dandiprat (plural dandiprats)

  1. (obsolete) An English coin worth three half-pence
  2. (dated) An insignificant or contemptible person
    • It seems but proper, every way, therefore, for us to know, that this king of poets and philosophers was also among the best of men ; that, in his character, modesty and humility kept pace with greatness ; and that he was as much better than the beau-ideals of our intellectual popinjays and...1848, Henry Norman Hudson, Lectures on Shakespeare - Volume 1, page 41

Forms of dandyprat

pluraldandyprats

Questions about dandyprat

What is dandyprat the alternative form of?
Dandyprat is the alternative form of dandiprat.

Words near dandyprat in the dictionary

  1. dandyized
  2. dandyizes
  3. dandyizing
  4. dandyling
  5. dandylings
  6. dandyprat
  7. dandyprats
  8. dandypratt
  9. dandypratts
  10. Dandys
  11. Dane

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