pandy
Americannoun
verb (used with object)
noun
verb
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of pandy
1795–1805; < Latin pande stretch out! (imperative of pandere ), i.e., open your hand to take the blow
Example Sentences
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—It's a stinking mean thing, that's what it is, said Fleming in the corridor as the classes were passing out in file to the refectory, to pandy a fellow for what is not his fault.
From A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by Joyce, James
In his correspondence with the family he was sometimes very playful, as when he wrote to Mrs. Baxter thanking her for the "wickled palnuts and pandy breaches," which she had lately sent him.
From Reminiscences, 1819-1899 by Howe, Julia Ward
Do you know that we three were prisoners, and that these lads rescued us from the middle of a pandy regiment.
From In Times of Peril by Henty, G. A. (George Alfred)
Dominie is the Latin vocative domine, formerly used by schoolboys in addressing their master, while pandy, a stroke on the hand with a cane, is from pande palmam, hold out your hand.
From The Romance of Words (4th ed.) by Weekley, Ernest
Yes, go up and tell the rector on him, Dedalus, said Nasty Roche, because he said that he'd come in tomorrow again and pandy you.
From A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by Joyce, James
Do you line that low wall, and keep back the pandies a minute or two; they will be on us like a swarm of bees.
From In Times of Peril by Henty, G. A. (George Alfred)
The pandies have been intrenching themselves very strongly at Dong, which is five miles from here.
From In Times of Peril by Henty, G. A. (George Alfred)
It was indeed a splendid sight when the cavalry debouched from yonder grove, and with Sir Colin at their head, dashed into the retreating pandies.
From The Ruined Cities of Zululand by Walmsley, Hugh Mulleneux
And if he went and was pandied all the same all the fellows would make fun and talk about young Dedalus going up to the rector to tell on the prefect of studies.
From A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by Joyce, James
—Father Dolan came in today and pandied me because I was not writing my theme.
From A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by Joyce, James
Then to be called a schemer before the class and to be pandied when he always got the card for first or second and was the leader of the Yorkists!
From A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by Joyce, James
"You are like Miss Ailie with her cane when she is pandying," he told Grizel.
From Sentimental Tommy The Story of His Boyhood by Barrie, J. M. (James Matthew)
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