dashed (dasht)

[ Before her you looked dashed , and kept bowing to the ground, and talked, for all the world, as if you were before a justice of peace. Goldsmith , She Stoops to Conquer, iii. 3. A euphemism for damned , from the form d-d, often used to represent that word. dasher (dash'er), n. 1. One who or that which dashes or agitates, as the float of a paddle wheel, the plunger of a churn, and the like.2. A dash-board.-3. One who makes an ostentatious parade; a bold, showy, ostentatious man or woman. [Colloq.] She was astonished to find in high life a degree of vulgarity of which her country companions would have been ashamed; but all such things in high life go under the general term dashing. These young ladies were dashers . Alas! perhaps foreigners and future generations may not know the meaning of the term. Mi Edge worth , Almeria, p. 292. Dashers ! who once a month a emble, Make creditors and coachmen tremble, And dre 'd in colours vastly fine, Drive to some public-house to dine. W. Combe , Dr. Syntax's Tours, i. 18. d, Dasher-block.