subs. (old).—1. A little fop; a coxcomb; a DANDIPRAT (q.v.): also JACK DANDY. For synonyms, see DANDY.
1632. R. BROME, The Northern Lasse, iii. 2. Be. I’le throw him into the Dock rather than he shall succeed JACK O’DANDY.
1664. ETHEREGE, The Comical Revenge, ii. 3 [in Works (1704), 28].
| Leave her, she’s only worth the care | |
| Of some spruce JACK-A-DANDY. |
c. 1696. B. E., A New Dictionary of the Canting Crew, s.v. JACK-A-DANDY, a little impertinent insignificant Fellow.
1795. R. CUMBERLAND, The Jew, i. And when my monies is all gone, what shall I be then? An ass, a fool, a JACK-A-DANDY!
1823. BADCOCK (‘Jon Bee’), Dictionary of the Turf, etc., s.v. JACK-O’-DANDY. … of Dandy manners, foolish, proud, and choleric as a turkey or dindon.
1839. W. H. AINSWORTH, Jack Sheppard [ed. 1840], p. 141. ‘Because they’re in the next room, and the door’s shut; that’s vy, my JACK-A-DANDY!’ replied Abraham, unsuspiciously.
1881. J. B. HARWOOD, in Cassell’s Magazine, Feb., 164. ‘I take it very unkind o’ you, Sir, to have gone tempting and luring my hands away to your own three mills, and be hanged to you for a JACK-A-DANDY, there!’
2. (rhyming slang).—Brandy.
