dandyfunk Naut.
[? f. dandy n.1 II + funk n.2]
Hard tack soaked in water and baked with fat and molasses.
| 1883 in Amer. Speech (1959) XXXIV. 28 1902 A. B. Lubbock Round the Horn iii. 94 Loring..proposed that we should make some dandyfunk for tea. Ibid. 95 The dandy⁓funk..steaming hot, a mixture between a cake and a pudding. 1903 C. Protheroe Life Mercantile Marine ix. 87 ‘Dandy-funk’ is another dish..the substitution of a little molasses furnishing the excuse for another name. 1931 E. Linklater Juan in America i. iii. 37 They grew tender over memories of lobscouse and dandy-funk. |