dashern.
/ˈdaʃə/ 1. A person who dashes; spec. one who ‘cuts a dash’; a dashing person; a ‘fast’ young woman (colloquial).
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the mind > attention and judgement > fashionableness > [noun] > smart person
a man of (the first) feather1592
pink1602
smart1709
flasher1755
swell1786
dasher1807
smarty1847
city slicker1914
Roy1960
society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > [noun] > person > female
skit?1571
Messalina1575
brisk1689
dasher1807
femme du monde1849
playgirl1916
1807 Salmagundi 31 Dec. 398 To charter a curricle for a month, and have my cypher put on it, as is done by certain dashers of my acquaintance.
1809 M. Edgeworth Almeria in Tales of Fashionable Life II. 69 She was astonished to find in high life a degree of vulgarity, of which her country companions would have been ashamed; but all such things in high life go under the general term of dashing. These young ladies were dashers.
a1814 C. Dibdin Songs (1842) 252/2 Old Poll, once a dasher, now turn'd to a nurse.
1887 Pall Mall Gaz. 23 Nov. 3/2 The fast married woman of fashion..the unmarried dasher of the same species.
2. That which dashes; spec. the contrivance for agitating the cream in a churn.
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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation of dairy produce > [noun] > churning butter > churning-staff
churn-staff?a1500
churning-staff1768
dash1796
plunger1838
churning-stick1840
churn-dasher1845
dasher1847
churn-dash1860
1847 Ann. Rep. Commissioner Patents 1846 233 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (29th Congr., 2nd Sess.: House of Representatives Executive Doc. 52) III What I claim as my invention..is the combination of the vertical dasher with the oscillating dashers.
1848 D. Drake Let. 7 Jan. in C. D. Drake Pion. Life Kentucky (1870) v. 93 The latter stages of the process [of churning], when the butter rises on the dasher.
1853 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 14 i. 74 The old-fashioned barrel-churn, the dashers of which are fixed.
1872 O. W. Holmes Poet at Breakfast-table i. 29 The empty churn with its idle dasher.
3. = dashboard n. 1. U.S.
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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > cart, carriage, or wagon > carriage for conveying persons > [noun] > parts of > board or leather apron at front
apron1790
dashing-leather1794
knee-boot1794
splashing-board1809
splash-board1826
boot1828
dashboard1847
apron-cloth1857
dasher1858
dash1868
splasher1887
storm apron1895
1858 O. W. Holmes One-hoss Shay Boot, top, dasher, from tough old hide.
1860 O. W. Holmes Professor at Breakfast-table i. 17 By no means intending to put their heels through the dasher.
4. Applied to a hunting-cap.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > headgear > [noun] > cap > types of > worn for specific purpose > hunting cap
montero1611
dasher1802
1802 Sporting Mag. 20 314 Two new pair of Cordovan boots..and a black velvet dasher from the cap-maker.
5. A dashing attempt, movement, etc. colloquial.
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the world > action or operation > endeavour > [noun] > an attempt > hard or vigorous
tug1673
push1746
dasher1884
1884 Punch 18 Oct. 186/1 Drop your curb, pluck up heart, And go at it a dasher!
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online March 2019).
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