pandy
/pˈændi/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.83 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A mutineer.
verb
To distribute or publicize, especially in order to curry favor.
noun
Alternative form of pandy.
Example Sentences
- "Father Dolan came in today and pandied me because I was not writing my theme."
- ""Pandies," he said. "I bet you...How many boys here...How many of ye - would sooner be pandied rather than endure dentention.?""
- "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!"