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plural Dandos
A surname from Norman. examples
(UK, slang, archaic) A voracious eater. quotations
It is plaguily annoying to want a dinner, and have the appetite of a Dando — to be asked for a large debt, when your pockets cannot conceal a solitary shilling […]
1844, James MacGauran, Walter Clayton: A tale of the Gordon Riots, page 2
[…] have we not made out our case that a Master requires the propensities of Bacchus, with the appetite of a Dando […]
1904, Robert Smith Surtees, The Analysis of the Hunting Field, page 9