pandy

American  

[pan-dee] / ˈpæn di /

noun

plural

pandies

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

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verb (used with object)

pandied, pandying

1. to hit on the palm of the hand.

pandy British  

/ ˈpændɪ /

noun

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

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verb

1. (tr) to punish with such strokes

Etymology

Origin of pandy

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

Example Sentences

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

—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

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 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)