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Dandie Dinmont

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A jovial, true-hearted store-farmer, in Sir Walter Scott’s Guy Mannering. Also a hardy hairy short-legged terrier.

“From this dog descended Davidson of Hyndlee’s breed, the original Dandie-Dinmont.”—T. Brown: Our Dogs, p. 104.

 

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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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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
Daniel Lambert

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Dandie Dinmont