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pandy

verb

  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.

Where it comes from

From Latin pande (“hold out”), in schoolmaster commands pande manum "hold out [your] hand" or pande palmum "hold out [your] palm".

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry pandy (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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