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Dando

name, noun, slang

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname from Norman.
Noun
  1. 1
    A voracious eater. UK, archaic, slang

    "It is plaguily annoying to want a dinner, and have the appetite of a Dando — to be asked for a large debt, when your pockets cannot conceal a solitary shilling […]"

Etymology

Etymology 1

English habitational surname of Norman origin, from one of the two villages named Aunou, in France.

Etymology 2

Hotten explains this as the name of a man once famed for devouring large portions of oysters etc. at restaurants and then admitting he had no money.

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