pandy

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   A fulling mill.

2. 2

   mashed potatoes

3. 3

   To strike on the palm of the hand with a strap as a school punishment.

   • Father Dolan came in today and pandied me because I was not writing my theme.
   • "Pandies," he said. "I bet you...How many boys here...How many of ye - would sooner be pandied rather than endure dentention.?"
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   1. 4

      A slap on the palm of the hand with a strap.

      • They maun be kindly, coothy, an'commanding -- also severe. Carry sweeties i' their pouches as weel as taws, an' gie them fairings as weel as pandies. In short, they maun be able to endure privations of every sort.
      • During all the years he had lived among them in Clongowes and in Belvedere he had received only two pandies and, though these had been dealt him in the wrong, he knew that he had often escaped punishment.
      • Rafferty said it was good practice & it would toughen you up so you didn't feel pandies.
   2. 5

      Hand.

      • OK? so I'll slap my pandies and you can all cower down into your anoraks and we'll leave on non-speaking terms!
      • Spurs in the navy shirts with yellow shorts (as QPR played in white shorts), many of the players wearing red mittens to keep their pandies warm!
      • thanx...bit by bit mine knowledge of the universe expands. that sounds like heavy labour...and my pandies will get dirty
   3. 6

      A mutineer.

      • As long as I feel the entire confidence I do, that we shall triumph over this iniquitous combination, I cannot feel gloom. I leave this feeling to the Pandies, who have sacrificed honour and existence to the ghost of a delusion.
      • We had not long to wait before the line of guns, howitzers, and mortar carts, chiefly drawn by elephants, soon hove in sight... Poor Pandy, what a pounding was in store for you!
   4. 7

      To distribute or publicize, especially in order to curry favor.

      • Just because your ilk control the Americal school system and is pandied to by the press for the sake of having conflict to write about, don't ever assume that you are even close to a majority on the planet.
      • Instead he pandied to the press, the support and thought it would make him look tough. It achieved nothing and he should have played Beckham.
   5. 8

      Alternative form of pandy.

      • And as I said, sir, the whole garden was swarming wi' Pandies, so have a care.
      • We had not evacuated the Martiniére fifteen minutes today before it was swarming with Pandies like a nest of ants.
      • Many a morning before breakfast I was present here and assisted to hang a dozen or more of the rebel Pandies on the branches.
   6. 9

      A number of places in Wales

      A number of places in Wales:

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