pandy

Etymology

From Welsh pandy (“fulling house”).

name

  1. A number of places in Wales:; A hamlet near Brynglas, Bryn-crug community, Gwynedd (OS grid ref SH6202).
  2. A number of places in Wales:; A hamlet in Dolgellau community, Gwynedd (OS grid ref SH7217).
  3. A number of places in Wales:; A hamlet in Llanuwchllyn community, Gwynedd (OS grid ref SH8729).
  4. A number of places in Wales:; A small village in Crucorney community, north Monmouthshire (OS grid ref SO3322).
  5. A number of places in Wales:; A hamlet north of Llanbrynmair, Powys, properly Pandy-rhiw-Saeson (OS grid ref SH9004)
  6. A number of places in Wales:; A hamlet in Willington Worthenbury community, Wrexham borough, south-east of Bangor-on-Dee (OS grid ref SJ4243).

noun

  1. A fulling mill.
  2. mashed potatoes
  3. 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.”
  4. 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!”
  5. 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.”

verb

  1. 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.”
  2. To distribute or publicize, especially in order to curry favor.“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.”