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Dander

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Is your dander up or riz? Is your angry passion up? This is generally considered to be an Americanism; but Halliwell gives, in his Archaic Dictionary, both dander (anger) and dandy (distracted), the former common to several counties, and the latter peculiar to Somersetshire.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Danaides
Danaos
Danaw
Dance
Dance (Pyrrhic)
Dance of Death
Dances
Dances
Dancing-water (The)
Dandelion
Dander
Dandie Dinmont
Dandin (French)
Dandin (George)
Dandiprat
Dando (A)
Dandy
Dandy-horse
Dandyism
Dane’s Skin (A)
Dangle

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