handy-dandy

(han‘di-dan’di),n. [ dandy; 2 compound, varied for the rime, of hand + dandle.] 1. A play of children in which something, as a pebble or a coin, is shaken between the hands of one, while another gue es which hand it is retained in. See how yon’ justice rails upon yon’ simple thief. Hark in thine ear: Change places, and, handy-dandy, which is the justice, which is the thief? Shak., Lear, iv. 6. Neither cro and pile, nor ducks and drakes, are quite so ancient as handy-dandy. Arbuthnot, quoted in Strutt’s Sports and Pastimes, p. 506, Henee— 2}. A bribe paid secretly. Tho was Wrong a-fered Wysdome he by-souhte; On men of lawe Wrong lokede and large lich hem profrede, And for to haue of here help handy-dandy payede. Piers Plowman (C), v. 68. handy-fight+ (han‘di-fit), n. [