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perdy

perdy is the obsolete form of pardie.

Meaning of pardie

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...

Questions about perdy

What is perdy the obsolete form of?
Perdy is the obsolete form of pardie.

Words near perdy in the dictionary

  1. perdured
  2. perdures
  3. perduring
  4. perduringly
  5. perdus
  6. perdy
  7. pere
  8. perea
  9. Perean
  10. Pereans
  11. Perechyn

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Adapted from Wiktionary: perdy (page history and authors); pardie (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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