Equivalent to DAISY, but much earlier in date.

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1784.  Her breath is like the rose, and the pretty little mouth of pretty little Tippet is the Dandy O.—George Colman, Song in ‘Two to One.’ (N.E.D.)

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1794.  My uncle Cuthbert blew out a prodigious puff of my dandy tobacco.—Mass. Spy, Aug. 27.

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1796.  

        At population honey who so handy,
At that sport sure now Ireland’s not the dandy.
The Aurora, Phila., Sept. 30.    

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1806.  Tell us about the race between Madam Thornton and Mr. Flint, and her challenging him after she got beat; that’s the dandy.—Spirit of Public Journals, p. 14 (Baltimore).

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1822.  The reader will suppose this was a dandy of a thing, since it was on writing paper, two columns with a border.—Penna. Intelligencer (Harrisburg), Dec. 3.

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