"handy-dandy" meaning in English

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Adjective

Head templates: {{en-adj|-}} handy-dandy (not comparable)
  1. Alternative form of handy dandy Tags: alt-of, alternative, not-comparable Alternative form of: handy dandy Categories (topical): Games
    Sense id: en-handy-dandy-en-adj-osEIZWGe Disambiguation of Games: 55 45 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English reduplications, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 62 38 Disambiguation of English reduplications: 76 24 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 59 41
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

Noun

Etymology: From Middle English handy dandy. Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|handy dandy}} Middle English handy dandy Head templates: {{en-noun|-}} handy-dandy (uncountable)
  1. (obsolete) A children's game in which one child guesses in which closed hand the other holds some small object, winning the object if right and forfeiting an equivalent if wrong. Tags: obsolete, uncountable
    Sense id: en-handy-dandy-en-noun-oKDbqFfW Categories (other): Pages with 1 entry Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 41 59
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2
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