pandied

Verb (1)

pandy (third-person singular simple present pandies, present participle pandying, simple past and past participle pandied)

1. (transitive) To strike on the palm of the hand with a strap as a school punishment.
   • Father Dolan came in today and pandied me because I was not writing my theme.1917, James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Verb (2)

pandy (third-person singular simple present pandies, present participle pandying, simple past and past participle pandied)

1. (nonstandard, rare) To distribute or publicize, especially in order to curry favor.
   • I'm sure MS would have been ecstatic if the Win3.1 crowd had adopted NT, and I'll agree that they never did anything to quash the notion pandied about by a variety of magazines that NT was going to inherit the Windows desktop, but I don't recall seeing *any* MS claims of that nature, including the...1994 June 13, R S Rodgers, “What OS/2 needs to win”, in comp.os.os2.advocacy (Usenet)

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