Meaning of pandy | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A number of places in Wales:
2. A hamlet near Brynglas, Bryn-crug community, Gwynedd (OS grid ref SH6202).
3. A fulling mill.
   countable, uncountable
4. A slap on the palm of the hand with a strap.
5. A mutineer.
6. A hamlet in Dolgellau community, Gwynedd (OS grid ref SH7217).
7. mashed potatoes
   Ireland, countable, informal, uncountable
8. Hand.
   broadly, slang
9. A hamlet in Llanuwchllyn community, Gwynedd (OS grid ref SH8729).
10. A small village in Crucorney community, north Monmouthshire (OS grid ref SO3322).
11. A hamlet north of Llanbrynmair, Powys, properly Pandy-rhiw-Saeson (OS grid ref SH9004)
12. A hamlet in Willington Worthenbury community, Wrexham borough, south-east of Bangor-on-Dee (OS grid ref SJ4243).
13. A hamlet in Llansantffraid Glyn Ceiriog community, Wrexham borough, south of Glyn Ceiriog (OS grid ref SJ1935).
14. A village in Wrexham borough, north of the town of Wrexham (OS grid ref SJ3353; not marked on OS maps).

Examples

“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.”

“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”

“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!”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

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