pandy

plural pandies

1. countableuncountableA fulling mill.
2. Irelandcountableinformaluncountablemashed potatoes

present singular third person pandies · participle present pandying · participle past pandied · past pandied

1. transitiveTo 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.

   1917, James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

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   "Pandies," he said. "I bet you...How many boys here...How many of ye - would sooner be pandied rather than endure dentention.?"

   2007, Sydney Bernard Smith, Alexander the Careerist, →ISBN, page 125

plural pandies

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

   Rafferty said it was good practice & it would toughen you up so you didn't feel pandies.

   2007, Sydney Bernard Smith, Alexander the Careerist, →ISBN, page 79

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   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.

   1833, John Kennedy, Geordie Chalmers; or, the Law in Glenbuckie., page 197

   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.

   1917, James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

2. broadlyslangHand.

   OK? so I'll slap my pandies and you can all cower down into your anoraks and we'll leave on non-speaking terms!

   1998 July 30, Ron O'Brien, “Beta 4.0 v8 soon expires, then what?”, in demon.ip.support.turnpike (Usenet)

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   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!

   2005 June 29, DannyT, “Daft New Shirts Q”, in alt.sports.spurs (Usenet)

   thanx...bit by bit mine knowledge of the universe expands. that sounds like heavy labour...and my pandies will get dirty

   2017 August 24, abelard, “anybody can tell me why unturned red soil goes light yellow(sand coloured)?”, in uk.politics.misc (Usenet)

plural pandies · alternative Pandy

1. A mutineer.

   He blew forty prisoners from the mouths of his cannon to make the damn pandies understand the fate that awaits them.

   2015, Paul Fraser Collard, The Lone Warrior, →ISBN

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   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.

   1857, H. Greathed, Letters during the Siege of Delhi, page 99

   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!

   1858, George Bourchier, Eight Months' Campaign against the Bengal Sepoy Army, page 47

   But, as my friend Dennis Dolbear has pointed out, if Flashy were truly the Utter Bastard he wants to paint himself/see himself as, after they got him down off the muzzle of that gun, he'd have gone "Right -- where's the Surgeon for my broken arm and the Officer's Mess for a quick gin or two? Oh, and carry on the good work, Lieutenant." and walked away not paying a bit of attention as the other pandies were blown from the guns.

   1998 July 13, mike weber, “What Story Would You Like To See The Most????????”, in alt.books.george-fraser (Usenet)

   The manu guy in one of his reply to madurai veeran said that all pandies would have been "iruddu" pandies if not for the Namboodries, his obvious reference to the Brahmin blood lightning the dark colour of the original Dark Dravidian Tamils.

   1999 December 19, MR LINGA, “Brahmin reporters fret over Tamil prowess”, in soc.culture.tamil (Usenet)

present singular third person pandies · participle present pandying · participle past pandied · past pandied

1. nonstandardrareTo distribute or publicize, especially in order to curry favor.

   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.

   2007 May 28, Moog, “Beckham”, in alt.sports.soccer.everton (Usenet)

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   I'm sure MS would have been ecstatic if the Win3.1 crowd had adopted NT, and I'll agree that they never did anything to quash the notion pandied about by a variety of magazines that NT was going to inherit the Windows desktop, but I don't recall seeing *any* MS claims of that nature, including the ads they were running that mentioned NT before NT was released.

   1994 June 13, R S Rodgers, “What OS/2 needs to win”, in comp.os.os2.advocacy (Usenet)

   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.

   1997 July 30, Allen, “newbie question”, in alt.psychology.personality (Usenet)

plural Pandies

1. alternativeAlternative form of pandy.

   And as I said, sir, the whole garden was swarming wi' Pandies, so have a care.

   2003, V. A. Stuart, The Heroic Garrison, →ISBN

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   We had not evacuated the Martiniére fifteen minutes today before it was swarming with Pandies like a nest of ants.

   2014, Major Octavius H. S. G. Anson, With H.M. 9th Lancers During The Indian Mutiny, →ISBN

   Many a morning before breakfast I was present here and assisted to hang a dozen or more of the rebel Pandies on the branches.

   2015, Frank Richards, Old Soldier Sahib, →ISBN

1. A number of places in Wales:
   1. A hamlet near Brynglas, Bryn-crug community, Gwynedd (OS grid ref SH6202).
   2. A hamlet in Dolgellau community, Gwynedd (OS grid ref SH7217).
   3. A hamlet in Llanuwchllyn community, Gwynedd (OS grid ref SH8729).
   4. A small village in Crucorney community, north Monmouthshire (OS grid ref SO3322).
   5. A hamlet north of Llanbrynmair, Powys, properly Pandy-rhiw-Saeson (OS grid ref SH9004)
   6. A hamlet in Willington Worthenbury community, Wrexham borough, south-east of Bangor-on-Dee (OS grid ref SJ4243).
   7. A hamlet in Llansantffraid Glyn Ceiriog community, Wrexham borough, south of Glyn Ceiriog (OS grid ref SJ1935).
   8. A village in Wrexham borough, north of the town of Wrexham (OS grid ref SJ3353; not marked on OS maps).