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pandying

pandying is the present participle and gerund of pandy.

Meaning of pandy

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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Questions about pandying

What is pandying the present participle and gerund of?
Pandying is the present participle and gerund of pandy.

Words near pandying in the dictionary

  1. Pandy-rhiw-Saeson
  2. Pandya
  3. Pandyas
  4. pandybat
  5. pandybats
  6. pandying
  7. pandysautonomia
  8. pandysautonomias
  9. pandysautonomic
  10. pandæmonism
  11. pandæmonium

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