ˈdandilly, a. and n. Sc.
Also dandily.
[app. a deriv. of dandle v.]
A. adj. Petted, spoiled by being made too much of. Jamieson also gives the meaning ‘Celebrated’. B. n. A pet, a darling.
| 1500–20 Dunbar Schir, Ȝit remembir 62, I wes in ȝowth on nureiss kne, [cald] Dandely, bischop, dandely. 1697 Cleland Poems 76 (Jam.) The fate of some [that] were once Dandillies, Might teach the younger stags and fillies, Not for to trample poor cart-horse. 17.. in R. Jamieson Pop. Songs (1806) I. 324 (Jam.) And he has married a dandily wife, She wadna shape, nor yet wad she sew. a 1808 Ross Songs 145 (Jam.) The dandilly toast of the parish Is woo'd and married and a'. 1818 Scott Br. Lamm. xxxiv, Yon dandilly maiden..a' glistenin' wi' goud and jewels. |