Green’s Dictionary of Slang

dandery adj.

[SE get one’s dander up]

(US) irritated, angry, alarmed.

[US]T. Haliburton Clockmaker II 20: It made me feel kinder dandery at him.
[US]‘Jonathan Slick’ High Life in N.Y. I 42: I was skeered by the noise they made, and my hair stood up on eend I felt so dandery.