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Synonyms for dander
Grammar : Noun |
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Phonetic Transcription : ˈdæn dər |
Définition of dander
Origin :- 1831, American English, "temper," of unknown origin; perhaps originally from figurative use of West Indies dander, dunder "fermentation of sugar," from Spanish redundar "to overflow," from Latin redundare (see redundant).
- noun anger
- But you didn't ought to have your dander ris with me, Gen'ral.'
- Extract from : « Life And Adventures Of Martin Chuzzlewit » by Charles Dickens
- They have a good deal of dander (dandruff) for sich little vipers!
- Extract from : « Oak Openings » by James Fenimore Cooper
- But whatever did you do to them, to get their dander up so bad, Giraffe?
- Extract from : « The Boy Scouts Afoot in France » by Herbert Carter
- But as this is our first interview, I must not let my dander rise.'
- Extract from : « The Golden Butterfly » by Walter Besant
- He's takkin a dander through the buryin' ground wi' Snecky Hobart.'
- Extract from : « When a Man's Single » by J. M. Barrie
- "Why, that are saddle," sez I, beginning to feel my dander rise.
- Extract from : « Highlife in New York: a series of letters to Mr. Zephariah Slick, » by Ann S. Stephens
- But one's dander gets up, and one doesn't like to be done, and so it goes on.
- Extract from : « The Duke's Children » by Anthony Trollope
- But "his dander was up," he says, and he thought no more, but acted.
- Extract from : « Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 383, September 1847 » by Various
- The Monroe doctrine was touched; and along with it the Yankee “dander.”
- Extract from : « The Bandolero » by Mayne Reid
- Celia: I will not, till I'll free it from the dust and dander of the year.
- Extract from : « Three Wonder Plays » by Lady I. A. Gregory
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