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Dandie Dinmont   Listen
noun
Dandie Dinmont  n.  
1.
In Scott's "Guy Mannering", a Border farmer of eccentric but fine character, who owns two terriers claimed to be the progenitors of the Dandie Dinmont terriers.
2.
One of a breed of terriers with short legs, long body, and rough coat, originating in the country about the English and Scotch border.





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"Dandie Dinmont" Quotes from Famous Books



... rough Yorkshiremen would have drunk punch with Mr. Tovell; and the farmers in the 'Mill on the Floss' are representatives of the same race, slightly degenerate, in so far as they are just conscious that a new cause of disturbance is setting into the quiet rural districts. Dandie Dinmont again is a relation of Crabbe's heroes, though the fresh air of the Cheviots and the stirring traditions of the old border life have conferred upon him a more poetical colouring. To get a realistic picture of country life as Crabbe saw it, we must go back to Squire ...
— Hours in a Library - New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3) • Leslie Stephen
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Words linked to "Dandie Dinmont" :   Dandie Dinmont terrier


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