handy dandy

See also: handy-dandy

English

Alternative forms

• handy-dandy

Adjective

handy dandy (comparative more handy dandy, superlative most handy dandy)

1. (informal) Handy; helpful or useful, as due to some clever trick or design.

   She always comes up with great ideas for handy dandy new tools.

Middle English

Noun

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.
   • c. 1370–1390, [William Langland], “(please specify the passus number)”, in The Vision of Pierce Plowman [...], London: […] Roberte Crowley, […], published 1550, →OCLC:

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

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