handy-dandyとは 意味・読み方・使い方

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• handy-dandy

名詞

handy dandy

1. A children's game in which one child guesses in which closed hand the other holds some small object, winning the object if right and forfeiting an equivalent if wrong.
2. A bribe.
   • c. 1378-9, [William Langland], “(please specify the passus number)”, in The Vision of Pierce Plowman [...] (Cr, B-text), London: […] Roberte Crowley, […], published 1550, →OCLC:

     To maken his pees with his pens, handy dandy payed.

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