Dandered vs Gandered - What's the difference?
dandered | gandered |
(dander)
Dandruff—scaly white dead skin flakes from the human scalp.
Hair follicles and dead skin shed from mammals.
Allergen particles that accumulate on and may be shed from the skin and fur of domestic animals, especially from household pets such as cats and dogs.
(slang) Passion, temper, anger. Usually preceded by "have" or "get" and followed by "up".
To wander about.
* , Episode 16
To maunder, to talk incoherently.
(gander)
A male goose.
* 1916 , Blanche Fisher Wright, The Original Mother Goose
A fool, simpleton
A glance, look.
As verbs the difference between dandered and gandered
is that dandered is past tense of dander while gandered is past tense of gander.dandered
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Verb
(head)dander
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(wikipedia dander)Etymology 1
Alteration of dandruffNoun
(-)Etymology 2
(en)Noun
(-)- He'll get his dander up if his team is criticized.
- She has her dander up every day about discrimination against women.
See also
* knee-jerk (Passion, temper, anger)Etymology 3
Alteration of dandle or daddleVerb
(en verb)- So as neither of them were particularly pressed for time, as it happened, and the temperature refreshing since it cleared up after the recent visitation of Jupiter Pluvius, they dandered along past by where the empty vehicle was waiting without a fare or a jarvey
Derived terms
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* ----gandered
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Verb
(head)Anagrams
* * *gander
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Noun
(en noun)- Old Mother Goose / When she wanted to wander / Would ride through the air / On a very fine gander .
- Have a gander at what he’s written.