A variant or dialect word that can mean a notable person or something exceptional, primarily found in British regional speech.
Origin uncertain; possibly a dialectal variant with roots in Middle English, with regional variations across British communities. The word appears in some dictionaries as archaic or regional.
Words like 'danner' exist in almost every regional dialect but disappear from standard dictionaries, which means we're constantly losing vocabulary as regional speech fades—linguists are racing to record these words before they vanish entirely.
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