dandy's stick

English

Noun

dandy's stick

1. Alternative form of dandy stick
   • 1880, H. Savile Clarke, editor Clement W. Scott, Stories of the Stage, part 2 “The Green Room”, poem “The Stage World”, second page 34:

     There the beauty’s word supreme is,
     There the dandy’s stick is twirl’d:
     “All the world’s a stage;” my theme is—
     All the stage a world!

   • 1920, James Gibbons Huneker, Steeplejack, page 83:

     He saw me backing towards the trap and rapped over my heedless shoulders his dandy’s stick, saying to Dick Townsend: “There’s a Johnny Look-in-the-Air for you!”

   • 2011, Maria Zannini, chapter 36, in Apocalypse Rising, Carina Press, →ISBN:

     They traded blows with wooden swords, Grey getting the better of him with every strike. “Stop treating the sword as a tool.” He grabbed at his groin. “Use it like you do your own cock, man. It’s an extension of yourself, not a dandy’s stick.”

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