subs. (colloquial).—Anger. TO RAISE ONE’S DANDER or GET ONE’S DANDER UP or RIZ = to make or get angry. [Derivation uncertain; provincial in several English counties.]
1843. DICKENS, Martin Chuzzlewit, ch. xxi., p. 223. I do my duty; and I RAISE THE DANDER of my feller critters, as I wish to serve;… they rile up rough, along of my objecting to their selling Eden off too cheap.
1848–62. J. R. LOWELL, The Biglow Papers.
| Wut ’ll make ye act like freemen? | |
| Wut ’ll GIT YOUR DANDER RIZ? |
1849. THACKERAY, Pendennis, ch. xliii. Don’t talk to me about daring to do this thing or t’other, or when my DANDER IS UP, it’s the very thing to urge me on.
1863. Punch, 7 Feb.
| Ef John Bull had RIZ OUR DANDER, | |
| Settin’ foot on yonder shore, | |
| Then we should hev holler’d, grander | |
| Than the broad Atlantic’s roar. |
1872. Chambers’s Journal, 14 Dec., p. 791. They knew he’d never find out who did it, for he was in such an awful DANDER.
