subs. and adj. (colloquial).—Specifically, a stammering, foolish, and long-whiskered fop—the Lord Dundreary of Our American Cousin (1858)—generally, a foppish fool. Cf., JUBILEE JUGGINS.
1876. J. GRANT, One of the Six Hundred, ch. iii. His whole air had the ‘used up’ bearing of those miserable DUNDREARYS who affect to act as if youth, wealth, and luxury were the greatest calamities that flesh is heir to, and that life itself was a bore.
