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pandy

pandy noun: a fulling mill.

Noun (1)

pandy (countable and uncountable, plural pandies)

  1. A fulling mill.
  2. (Ireland, informal) mashed potatoes

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
    • "Pandies," he said. "I bet you...How many boys here...How many of ye - would sooner be pandied rather than endure dentention.?"2007, Sydney Bernard Smith, Alexander the Careerist, →ISBN, page 125

Noun (2)

pandy (plural pandies)

  1. A slap on the palm of the hand with a strap.
    • They maun be kindly, coothy, an'commanding -- also severe. Carry sweeties i' their pouches as weel as taws, an' gie them fairings as weel as pandies. In short, they maun be able to endure privations of every sort.1833, John Kennedy, Geordie Chalmers; or, the Law in Glenbuckie., page 197
    • During all the years he had lived among them in Clongowes and in Belvedere he had received only two pandies and, though these had been dealt him in the wrong, he knew that he had often escaped punishment.1917, James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
  2. (broadly, slang) Hand.
    • OK? so I'll slap my pandies and you can all cower down into your anoraks and we'll leave on non-speaking terms!1998 July 30, Ron O'Brien, “Beta 4.0 v8 soon expires, then what?”, in demon.ip.support.turnpike (Usenet)
    • Spurs in the navy shirts with yellow shorts (as QPR played in white shorts), many of the players wearing red mittens to keep their pandies warm!2005 June 29, DannyT, “Daft New Shirts Q”, in alt.sports.spurs (Usenet)

Noun (3)

pandy (plural pandies)

  1. A mutineer.
    • As long as I feel the entire confidence I do, that we shall triumph over this iniquitous combination, I cannot feel gloom. I leave this feeling to the Pandies, who have sacrificed honour and existence to the ghost of a delusion.1857, H. Greathed, Letters during the Siege of Delhi, page 99
    • We had not long to wait before the line of guns, howitzers, and mortar carts, chiefly drawn by elephants, soon hove in sight... Poor Pandy, what a pounding was in store for you!1858, George Bourchier, Eight Months' Campaign against the Bengal Sepoy Army, page 47

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)
    • Just because your ilk control the Americal school system and is pandied to by the press for the sake of having conflict to write about, don't ever assume that you are even close to a majority on the planet.1997 July 30, Allen, “newbie question”, in alt.psychology.personality (Usenet)

Noun (4) capitalized: Pandy

Pandy (plural Pandies)

  1. (alternative) Alternative form of pandy.
    • And as I said, sir, the whole garden was swarming wi' Pandies, so have a care.2003, V. A. Stuart, The Heroic Garrison, →ISBN
    • We had not evacuated the Martiniére fifteen minutes today before it was swarming with Pandies like a nest of ants.2014, Major Octavius H. S. G. Anson, With H.M. 9th Lancers During The Indian Mutiny, →ISBN

Proper noun capitalized: Pandy

Pandy

  1. A hamlet near Brynglas, Bryn-crug community, Gwynedd (OS grid ref SH6202).
  2. A hamlet in Dolgellau community, Gwynedd (OS grid ref SH7217).
  3. A hamlet in Llanuwchllyn community, Gwynedd (OS grid ref SH8729).
  4. A small village in Crucorney community, north Monmouthshire (OS grid ref SO3322).
  5. A hamlet north of Llanbrynmair, Powys, properly Pandy-rhiw-Saeson (OS grid ref SH9004)
  6. A hamlet in Willington Worthenbury community, Wrexham borough, south-east of Bangor-on-Dee (OS grid ref SJ4243).
  7. A hamlet in Llansantffraid Glyn Ceiriog community, Wrexham borough, south of Glyn Ceiriog (OS grid ref SJ1935).
  8. A village in Wrexham borough, north of the town of Wrexham (OS grid ref SJ3353; not marked on OS maps).

Forms of pandy

Noun
pluralpandies
alternative formPandy
pluralPandies
Verb
third-person singular presentpandies
present participlepandying
past participlepandied
pastpandied

Origin of pandy

From Welsh pandy (“fulling house”).

From Latin pande (“hold out”), in schoolmaster commands pande manum "hold out [your] hand" or pande palmum "hold out [your] palm".

After a corruption of Mangal Pandey, who started the Indian Mutiny of 1857.

Words formed from pandy

Questions about pandy

What does pandy mean?
Pandy means a fulling mill.
What part of speech is pandy?
Pandy can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
What is the plural of pandy?
The plural of pandy is pandies.

Words near pandy in the dictionary

  1. panduriform
  2. pandurina
  3. pandurinas
  4. Panduro
  5. Panduros
  6. pandy
  7. pandy bat
  8. pandy-bat
  9. Pandy-rhiw-Saeson
  10. Pandya
  11. Pandyas

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