So. “Affectedly neat and trim”: Jamieson. Ramsay, 1717: N.E.D.
1805. Citizen Lafferty must have a “doncy” opinion of the cause, when he is afraid to bet even.—Lancaster (Pa.) Journal, Oct. 2.
1806.
| Tammy is quite a pleasant chiel, | |
| But then he wears a doncy heed [head]. | |
From ‘A Sang, by Burns, Jun.,’ Lancaster Intelligencer, Jan. 14. |
1846. I shall give her enough to eat and wear, and I don’t calculate she’ll be very daunsey if she gets that.—E. W. Farnham, ‘Life in Prairie Land,’ p. 39.
1853. She brought them [some letters] to my room to keep me from feeling ‘donsy.’—Yale Lit. Mag., xvii. 223 (May).
1874. “You look powerful dauncy,” said the old man.—E. Eggleston, ‘The Circuit Rider,’ p. 61.
