Handy-dandy

Handy-dandy
Handy-dandy Hand"y-dan`dy (h[a^]nd"[y^]*d[a^]n`d[y^]), n. A child's play, one child guessing in which closed hand the other holds some small object, winning the object if right and forfeiting an equivalent if wrong; hence, forfeit. --Piers Plowman. [1913 Webster]

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