Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb Chiefly British To strike on the open palm of the hand with a cane or strap for punishment at school.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A stroke on the palm of the hand, as with a cane or strap; a punishment in schools.
- To slap, as the hand.
- noun A Hindu; a sepoy: especially applied by the British troops to the Sepoys in the Indian mutiny of 1857-8.
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- noun A
fulling mill . - verb transitive To
strike on thepalm of thehand with astrap as a school punishment.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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& pandy aka shankaraccarya hindutva party workers like babu bajrangi raping pragnent women are to be defened by party with a diierence president rajnath singh
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However, this first of the Indian sepoy rebels gained an appropriate immortality: the British word for any native mutineer thereafter was "pandy".
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However, this first of the Indian sepoy rebels gained an appropriate immortality: the British word for any native mutineer thereafter was "pandy".
Flashman In The Great Game Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1975
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However, this first of the Indian sepoy rebels gained an appropriate immortality: the British word for any native mutineer thereafter was "pandy".
Flashman In The Great Game Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1975
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One of the pandies stirred, and pulled himself up on one knee; Wheeler, his arm still round the babu, whipped up his revolver and fired, and the pandy flopped back in the dust.
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My front-gallopers swerved in among the jumble of fallen masonry and scorched timbers, howling like dervishes; I saw one of them sabring down a pandy who thrust up at him with musket and bayonet, while another rode slap into a big, white-dhotied fellow who was springing at him with a spear.
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D'ye know, that Irish lunatic absolutely ran the gauntlet of pandy fire to get back into Lucknow, and bring out Outram and Havelock in person (with the poor old Gravedigger hardly able to hobble along) just so that they could greet Sir Colin as he covered the last few furlongs?
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"Yes, a week at most," says he, and pointed out how he had sited his left and right attacks opposite the strongest points in the rebel defences, which our gunners were pounding with red-hot shot, keeping the pandy fire-parties busy quelling the flames which you could see here and there behind the walls, flickering crazily through the heat-haze.
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It was dawn, and across the flat maidan, in front of the pandy gun positions, men were moving - hundreds of them.
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He tried hard enough, but found that the pandy forces, while they didn't make best use of their overwhelming numbers, fought better defensive actions than anyone had expected, and Havelock got a couple of black eyes before he'd gone ten miles, and had to fall back.
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treeseed commented on the word pandy
Merriam-Webster Dictionary:
transitive verb
Inflected Form(s): pan·died; pan·dy·ing
Etymology: probably from Latin pande, imperative singular of pandere to spread out (the hand), command of the schoolmaster to the boy
Date: 1863
British : to punish (a schoolboy) with a blow on the palm of the hand especially with a ferule
January 30, 2008
treeseed commented on the word pandy
In the early 1900s in Wales, my grandfather was pandied on the left hand to force him to use his right hand in penmanship.
January 30, 2008