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handy dandy

noun, adj — 2 senses

handy-dandy

nounalso spelled handy-dandy

Etymology Inherited from Middle English handy dandy.

1

Obsolete 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.

handy dandy

adj
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.

Entry derived from the Wiktionary, under licence CC BY-SA 4.0 — authors: page histories for handy-dandy and handy dandy.