DANDIPRAT

PRONUNCIATION: (DAN-dee-prat)

MEANING: noun
1. An inconsequential person.
2. A person of small stature.
3. A child.

ETYMOLOGY: Of unknown origin. Earliest documented use: 1525. Dandiprat was also the name of a silver coin in 16th-century England, worth three halfpence.
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DANDI CRAT - proponent of government by the foppish

DONDI PRAT - comic strip waif makes an ass of himself

D. AND I RAT - we're turning States evidence