pandy

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A fulling mill. countable,uncountable
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. mashed potatoes Ireland,countable,informal,uncountable
  5. Hand. broadly,slang
    — OK? so I'll slap my pandies and you can all cower down into your anoraks and we'll leave on non-speaking terms!
动词 v.
  1. To strike on the palm of the hand with a strap as a school punishment. transitive
    — Father Dolan came in today and pandied me because I was not writing my theme.
  2. To distribute or publicize, especially in order to curry favor. nonstandard,rare
    — 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.

词形变化

pandies plural pandies present,singular,third-person pandying participle,present pandied participle,past pandied past pandies plural pandies plural Pandy alternative pandies present,singular,third-person pandying participle,present pandied participle,past pandied past

词汇关系

衍生词
pandy bat

词源

词源 1
From Welsh pandy (“fulling house”).
词源 2
From Latin pande (“hold out”), in schoolmaster commands pande manum "hold out [your] hand" or pande palmum "hold out [your] palm".
词源 3
After a corruption of Mangal Pandey, who started the Indian Mutiny of 1857.
词源 4
Blend of pander + bandy, by confusion.
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