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Dandie Dinmont n.

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.

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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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... 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

Words linked to "Dandie Dinmont" : Dandie Dinmont terrier