| 单词 | pandy |
| 释义 | pandy, n.1 Chiefly Sc.|ˈpændɪ|
[Supposed to be L. pande ‘stretch out!’, imper. of pandĕre to stretch or spread.]
a. A stroke upon the extended palm with a leather strap or tawse, ferule, or rod, given as a punishment to schoolboys; = palmy n.
1805A. Scott Poems 12 But if for little rompish laits, I hear that thou a pandy gets. 1865G. Macdonald A. Forbes 30 The punishment was mostly in the form of pandies—blows delivered with varying force, but generally with the full swing of the tag, as it was commonly called. 1876Grant Burgh Sch. Scotl. i. v. 204 Breaches of order and bad conduct..at the Elgin academy [are punished] by ‘pandies’. 1895W. Humphrey in Month Oct. 230 The pandies took their name from Pande manum—‘Stretch out your open hand’. [The usual Sc. explanation is from pande palmam! as the source at once of pandy and palmy.]
b. attrib. and Comb., as pandybat.
1916Joyce Portrait of Artist (1969) i. 49 Fleming held out his hand. The pandybat came down on it with a loud smacking sound. 1922― Ulysses 547 Twice loudly a pandybat cracks.
Hence ˈpandy v. trans., to strike on the palm of the hand with the tawse or ferule, as a punishment.
1863Kingsley Water-Bab. v, And she..pandied their hands with canes. 1875A. R. Hope My Schoolboy Fr. 11 When he was going to be pandied. |
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