Dandin, Perrin, a simple citizen in the “Pantagruel” of Rabelais, who seats himself judge-wise on the first stump that offers, and passes offhand a sentence in any matter of litigation; a character who figures similarly in a comedy of Racine's, and in a fable of La Fontaine's.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Dandin, George * Dan`dolo