dandiprat

plural dandiprats · alternative dandyprat · alternative dandypratt

1. obsoleteAn English coin worth three half-pence
2. datedAn insignificant or contemptible person

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   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 dandiprats, as those beau-ideals were prouder than he.

   1848, Henry Norman Hudson, Lectures on Shakespeare - Volume 1, page 41