dandi

See also: Dandi

English

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Hindi [Term?].

Noun

dandi (plural dandis)

1. (India) A boatman; an oarsman.
   • 1974, Indian Factories & Labour Reports, volume 28, India Supreme Court, page 6:

     In the course of unloading of the goods from a steamer, a dandi working on the boat enganged himself in the rope which was thrown from the steamer for the purposes of tying the boat and suffered injury.

Etymology 2

Noun

dandi (plural dandis)

1. (India) A type of palanquin.
   • 1863, Results of a Scientific Mission to India and High Asia:

     In cases of short temporary illness a dandi may occasionally be very useful. Any strong pole, with a cloth sufficiently large, elliptically folded, and solidly attached to it in a longitudinal form, may at once be converted into a dandi.

   • 1912, Arthur Clinton Boggess, First Days in India, page 124:

     A dandi is a kind of chair and foot-rest, so mounted on a framework of wood and iron rods that it can be carried by one man when it is empty, and by four men at a time when it has a passenger.

Anagrams

• DIAND, add-in, didna, nidda

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Latin

Participle

(deprecated template usage) dandī

1. nominative masculine plural of dandus
2. genitive masculine singular of dandus
3. genitive neuter singular of dandus
4. vocative masculine plural of dandus

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Spanish

Noun

dandi m (plural dandis)

1. Alternative form of dandy