Meanings
- alternativeAlternative 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 342 more examples
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 83They 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
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