handy-andy

American  

[han-dee-an-dee] / ˈhæn diˈæn di /

noun

PLURAL

handy-andies

1. a handyman.

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Etymology

Origin of handy-andy

After hero of Handy Andy, novel by Samuel Lover (1797–1868), Irish novelist

Example Sentences

For customers who like to do their banking along with the family shopping, the San Antonio Savings Association has opened nine branches inside local Handy-Andy supermarkets, right among the soap and spinach.

From Time Magazine Archive

In looking around any museum of old standing we see twenty different styles and colours of cases, which may be briefly summarized as representing the eocene, miocene, and pliocene formation of cases; space has been wasted, or not utilized as it might be, and the result is a confused jumble of odds and ends, consequent on some persons considering that the end and aim of a museum should be the preservation of "bullets" collected by "Handy-Andy" from the field of "Arrah-na-Pogue," "My Grandfather's Clock," and so on.

From Project Gutenberg

Where did you get such a Handy-Andy?" she cried quickly, "There, you've named him, father, you've named him!

From Project Gutenberg

And Handy-Andy he was, but this soon became shortened to Andy alone, and by that name we will speak of his monkeyship in future.

From Project Gutenberg