pandy

[pan-dee]Chiefly Scot.

noun, plural pan·dies.

a stroke on the palm of the hand with a cane or strap given as a punishment in school.

verb (used with object), pan·died, pan·dy·ing.

to hit on the palm of the hand.

Origin of pandy

1795–1805; < Latin pande stretch out! (imperative of pandere), i.e., open your hand to take the blow

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Historical Examples of pandy

Master Pandy had played a doubtful game for heavy stakes, and had lost all.
A Soldier's Experience or A Voice from the Ranks: Showing the Cost of War in Blood and Treasure
Timothy Gowing
Passing on we came to a place called Pandy uchaf, or the higher Fulling mill.
Wild Wales
George Borrow
Pandy, pan′di, n. a stroke on the palm as a school punishment.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R)
Various
Also potatoes mashed with butter and milk; same as 'pandy,' which see.
English As We Speak It in Ireland
P. W. Joyce
The fourth is a long one-shot hole in a seaward direction, and the next is Pandy.
The Golf Courses of the British Isles
Bernard Darwin

British Dictionary definitions for pandy

pandy

noun plural -dies

(in schools) a stroke on the hand with a strap as a punishment

verb -dies, -dying or -died

(tr) to punish with such strokes

Word Origin for pandy

C19: from Latin pande (manum) stretch out (the hand), from pandere to spread or extend

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