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pardie

UK/pɑːˈdi/

pardie interjection: by God!

Interjection

  1. By God!
    • Yet notwithſtandyng all this geare, / thou cougheſt ſtill, perdy / Ye are a craftie knaue, you cough / to fare deliciouſly.1577, Martial, “Epigrammes out of Martial. [To Parthenope.]”, in Timothe Kendall, transl., Flowers of Epigrammes […], [Manchester]: […] [Charles Simms] for the Spenser Society, published 1874, →OCLC...
    • “Perdy,” (said Britomart) “the choise is hard; / But what reward had he that overcame?”1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

Forms of pardie

alternative formpardi
alternative formpardy
alternative formperdy
alternative formperdie

Origin of pardie

From Middle English parde, from Anglo-Norman pardi, pardeu, and Old French pardeu, from par (“by”) + Deu (“God”).

Questions about pardie

What does pardie mean?
Pardie means by God!
What part of speech is pardie?
Pardie is an interjection.
How do you pronounce pardie?
Pardie is pronounced /pɑːˈdi/ (UK).

Words near pardie in the dictionary

  1. Pardew
  2. Pardhan
  3. Pardhans
  4. pardi
  5. Pardiac
  6. pardie
  7. Pardies
  8. pardine
  9. Pardini
  10. Pardinis
  11. Pardis

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