Covered with dander; having flaky skin particles or dandruff visible on the surface.
From 'dander' (flaky skin, possibly from Dutch 'dander') plus the past participle suffix '-ed,' indicating a state or condition.
Dander is actually just dead skin cells—a normal thing all mammals produce—but we turned it into a cosmetic problem! The word jumped from descriptive to insulting around the 1800s.
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