dandipratn.
/ˈdandɪprat/ Obsolete or archaic.† 1. Applied to a small coin, worth three half-pence, current in England in the 16th cent. Obsolete.
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society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > coins collective > English coins > [noun] > coin of 1 1 or 2d
three-halfpence1483
dandipratc1520
c1520 T. Norfolk in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1846) 3rd Ser. I. 381 Suche a Coyne might be devised as were the dandipratts.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 498/2 Coyle out the dandyprattes and Yrisshe pence.
1543 R. Record Ground of Artes i. sig. M.vii A dandypratte worth 3 halfe pennes.
1574 E. Hellowes tr. A. de Guevara Familiar Epist. 406 If they aske an halfepeny for spice, a peny for candelles, a dandiprat for an earthen pot.
1614 W. Camden Remaines (rev. ed.) 207 K. Henry the seauenth stamped a small coine called Dandyprats.
1641 W. Prynne Antipathie 99 A poore Knave, scant worth a dandyprat.
2.
a. A small, insignificant, or contemptible fellow; a dwarf, pygmy. Also attributive. Obsolete or archaic.
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the world > people > person > man > [noun]
churla800
werec900
rinkeOE
wapmanc950
heOE
wyeOE
gomeOE
ledeOE
seggeOE
shalkOE
manOE
carmanlOE
mother bairnc1225
hemea1250
mother sona1250
hind1297
buck1303
mister mana1325
piecec1325
groomc1330
man of mouldc1330
hathela1350
sire1362
malea1382
fellowa1393
guestc1394
sergeant?a1400
tailarda1400
tulka1400
harlotc1405
mother's sona1470
frekea1475
her1488
masculinea1500
gentlemana1513
horse?a1513
mutton?a1513
merchant1549
child1551
dick1553
sorrya1555
knavea1556
dandiprat1556
cove1567
rat1571
manling1573
bird1575
stone-horse1580
loona1586
shaver1592
slave1592
copemate1593
tit1594
dog1597
hima1599
prick1598
dingle-dangle1605
jade1608
dildoa1616
Roger1631
Johnny1648
boy1651
cod1653
cully1676
son of a bitch1697
cull1698
feller1699
chap1704
buff1708
son of a gun1708
buffer1749
codger1750
Mr1753
he-man1758
fella1778
gilla1790
gloak1795
joker1811
gory1819
covey1821
chappie1822
Charley1825
hombre1832
brother-man1839
rooster1840
blokie1841
hoss1843
Joe1846
guy1847
plug1848
chal1851
rye1851
omee1859
bloke1861
guffin1862
gadgie1865
mug1865
kerel1873
stiff1882
snoozer1884
geezer1885
josser1886
dude1895
gazabo1896
jasper1896
prairie dog1897
sport1897
crow-eater1899
papa1903
gink1906
stud1909
scout1912
head1913
beezer1914
jeff1917
pisser1918
bimbo1919
bozo1920
gee1921
mush1936
rye mush1936
basher1942
okie1943
mugger1945
cat1946
ou1949
tess1952
oke1970
bra1974
muzhik1993
the world > life > the body > bodily height > shortness > [noun] > person
dwarfeOE
congeonc1230
go-by-ground?a1300
smalla1300
shrimpc1386
griga1400
gruba1400
murche1440
nirvil1440
mitinga1450
witherling1528
wretchocka1529
elf1530
hop-o'-my-thumb1530
pygmy1533
little person1538
manikin1540
mankin1552
dandiprat1556
yrle1568
grundy1570
Jack Sprat1570
squall1570
manling1573
Tom Thumb1579
pinka1585
squib1586
screaling1594
giant-dwarf1598
twattle1598
agate1600
minimus1600
cock sparrow1602
dapperling1611
modicum1611
scrub1611
sesquipedalian1615
dwarflinga1618
wretchcock1641
homuncio1643
whip-handle1653
homuncule1656
whippersnapper1674
chitterling1675
sprite1684
carliea1689
urling1691
wirling1691
dwarf man1699
poppet1699
durgan1706
short-arse1706
tomtit1706
Lilliputian1726
wallydraigle1736
midge1757
minikin1761
squeeze-crab1785
minimum1796
niff-naff1808
titman1818
teetotum1822
squita1825
cradden1825
nyaff1825
weed1825
pinkeen1850
fingerling1864
Lilliput1867
thumbling1867
midget1869
inch1884
shorty1888
titch1888
skimpling1890
stub1890
scrap1898
pygmoid1922
lofty1933
peewee1935
smidgen1952
pint-size1954
pint-sized1973
munchkin1974
the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [noun] > one who is unimportant > of little importance
nekardc1450
man of clouts, king of clouts1467
dandiprat1556
Tom Thumb1579
minim1590
pygmy?1592
titmouse1596
gnatling1614
rye straw1615
nazzard1619
whisk1629
whifling1640
snifty1660
whippersnapper1674
nick-ninny1699
little me1711
squita1825
lightweight1831
lay figure1835
whiffet1839
pinkeen1850
huckleberry1868
bush leaguer1906
knibloch1915
1556 J. Heywood Spider & Flie lx. 158 Yet as the giantes pawes pat downe dandipratts, So shall we put downe these dandiprat brag bratts.
1566 T. Drant in tr. Horace Medicinable Morall sig. Cvi Thou laughste at Turbo sworde player, a little dandie prat.
1606 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. (new ed.) ii. iv. 8 Am I a Dog, thou Dwarf, thou Dandiprat..?
1659 G. Torriano Florio's Vocabolario Italiano & Inglese Sipithaméi, pigmeis, or dandy-prats that be but three spans long.
1718 P. Motteux Don Quixote (1733) I. 211 I saw a little Dandiprat riding about, who, they said, was a hugeous great Lord.
1841 T. P. Thompson Exercises (1842) VI. 133 The dandiprats of St. Stephen's..took themselves for patricians of old Rome.
b. Said of a young lad, little boy, urchin; rarely (quot. 1638) a young girl. Obsolete or archaic.
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the world > people > person > child > boy > [noun]
knightc893
knapec1000
knaveOE
knape childc1175
knave-childa1225
groom?c1225
knight-bairnc1275
pagec1300
mana1382
swainc1386
knave-bairna1400
little mana1425
man-childa1438
boy1440
little boya1475
lad1535
boykin1540
tomboya1556
urchin1556
loonc1560
kinchin-co(ve)1567
big boy1572
dandiprat1582
pricket1582
boy child1584
callant1597
suck-egg1609
nacketc1618
custrel1668
hospital-boy1677
whelp1710
laddie1721
charity-boy1723
pam-child1760
chappie1822
bo1825
boyo1835
wagling1837
shirttail boy1840
boysie1846
umfaan1852
nipper1859
yob1859
fellow-my-lad?1860
laddo1870
chokra1875
shegetz1885
spalpeen1891
spadger1899
bug1900
boychick1921
sonny boy1928
sonny1939
okie1943
lightie1946
outjie1961
oke1970
the world > people > person > child > girl > [noun]
maiden-childeOE
maidenOE
maidc1275
maid-childc1275
wenchc1290
thernec1300
lassc1325
maidenkinc1330
child-womana1382
girlc1400
pucelle1439
maidkin1440
mawther1440
mop1466
woman-child?1515
bonnea1529
urchina1535
kinchin-mort1567
dandiprat1582
prill1587
sluta1592
little girl1603
maggie1603
tendril1603
squall1607
childa1616
filly1616
vriester1652
miss1668
gilpie1720
lassie1725
laddess1768
jeune fillea1777
bitch1785
girly?1786
gal1795
ladyling1807
missikin1815
colleen1828
girleen1833
snowdrop1833
pinafore1836
chica1843
fillette1847
charity-girl1848
urchiness1852
Mädchen1854
gel1857
pusill1884
backfisch1888
girly-girly1888
cliner1895
tittie1918
weeny1929
bobby-soxer1944
1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis i. 20 On father Æneas his neck thee dandiprat hangeth.
1638 T. Heywood Wise Woman i, in Wks. (1874) V. 284 Her name is Luce. With this Dandi~prat, this pretty little Apes face, is yon blunt fellow in love.
1706 R. Estcourt Fair Example iii. i Boy. A Candle, Sir! 'tis broad Daylight yet. Whims. What then, you little Dandyprat?
1821 W. Scott Kenilworth III. i. 8 It is even so, my little dandieprat.
1872 C. S. Calverley Fly Leaves 113 It's a thing I bought Of a bit of a chit of a boy..‘Chop’ was my snickering dandiprat's own term.
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