Dindy dandy sugar de candy
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- dandy: fop; very fine
- "Handy spandy Jack-a-dandy" : a nursery rhyme
Handy spandy Jack-a-dandy Loves plum cake and sugar candy, He bought some at the grocers shop And out he came, hop, hop, hop.
- sugar candy:a confection made by boiling pure sugar until it hardens.
- "Charlie likes whisky, Charlie likes brandy, Charlie likes kissing girls -- O sugar-de-candy:" London children;s street chant; Douglas: London Street Games 40