or bandboxical, adj. (colloquial).—(1) Precisely neat; fussy; finical; and (2) frail or small (as is a bandbox): e.g., a BANDBOX thing; ‘She’s just come out of a BANDBOX (or glass case)’; ‘You ought to be put in a BANDBOX (of anyone over particular). See BANDOG.

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  1774.  Westminster Magazine, II. 454. The good man … turned the eye of contempt upon the BAND-BOX Thing, and … said, ‘I believe ’tis a Doll.’

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  1787.  BECKFORD, Italy (1834), II. 175. Cooped up in close, BANDBOXICAL apartment.

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  d. 1852.  MOORE, Country Dance and Quadrille, xiii. 51.

        A BAND-BOX thing, all art and lace
  Down from her nose-tip to her shoe-tye.

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  1873.  M. E. BRADDON, Strangers and Pilgrims, III. i. 240. Square BANDBOXICAL rooms.

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  See ARSE.

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