单词 | pandy |
释义 | pandyn.1 Chiefly Scottish, English regional (northern), and Irish English. A stroke on the palm of the hand with a tawse, ruler, or rod, given as a punishment to children in schools; = palmy n. ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > corporal punishment > [noun] > stroke with strap or rod pandy1765 palmy1812 1765 S. Edwards Abstr. Eng. Gram. p. xx The Usher..looks over the Face, Hands and Shoes of the Boys; and if either of the two former be dirty, they are Spit upon; but 'tis a Pandy if the latter be dirty. 1805 A. Scott Poems 12 But if for little rompish laits I hear that thou a pandy gets. 1865 G. MacDonald Alec Forbes I. ix. 61 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. 1880 W. H. Patterson Gloss. Words Antrim & Down 76 Pandy, a punishment at school, being a blow on the hand from a cane or ruler. 1895 W. Humphrey in Month Oct. 230 The pandies took their name from Pande manum—‘Stretch out your open hand’. 1922 G. P. Dunbar Whiff o' Doric 16 They tholed their pandies, smilin'. 1951 Scots Mag. Aug. 339 We duly paid the penalty in pandies next day. 1996 C. I. Macafee Conc. Ulster Dict. 246/2 Pandy, a blow on the hand with a cane or ruler, to punish a schoolchild. 1997 Herald (Glasgow) (Nexis) 23 Dec. 12 I wis brocht up in the Govan, at a time when yi got six pandies wi the tawse for oglin a lassie's ankles. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online June 2022). Pandyn.2 Originally and chiefly British Army slang. Now chiefly historical. A sepoy (see sepoy n.); spec. a sepoy participating in the Mutiny of 1857–8. ΘΚΠ society > authority > lack of subjection > rebelliousness > mutiny > [noun] > mutineer > mutineer in specific mutiny Pandy1857 1857 H. H. Greathed Let. 7 July (1858) 99 As long as I feel the entire confidence I do..I cannot feel gloomy. I leave that feeling to the Pandees. 1860 W. H. Russell My Diary in India 1858–9 I. xvii. 266 I heard a good deal of ‘potting pandies’, and ‘polishing-off niggers’. 1897 Ld. Roberts 41 Years in India I. vi. 62 A sepoy named Mangal Pandy, belonging to the 34th Native Infantry..had attacked and severely wounded the Adjutant and Sergeant-Major of his regiment. [Note] This name was the origin of the sepoys generally being called Pandies. 1961 S. N. Sen in C. H. Philips Historians India xxvii. 383 Sir George Forrest..was not as hard on the Pande as his predecessors had been and stressed the fact that there were good men as well as bad among the sepoys. 1990 V. S. Naipaul India: Million Mutinies (1991) viii. 421 In the Sikh fierceness at the battle of Lucknow there would have been a wish to get even with the ‘Pandies’ who had helped to defeat them less than 10 years before. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). Pandyn.3 Medicine. attributive and in the genitive. Designating a test for the presence of globulins in cerebrospinal fluid, in which the protein is precipitated by a dilute aqueous solution of phenol (or one of several other reagents); chiefly in Pandy('s) test. Also absol. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > diagnosis or prognosis > tests > [noun] > specific test pneobiomantia1846 blood test1851 drug test1863 Romberg test1872 Rinne1881 Romberg's sign1884 tuberculin test1892 guaiac test1894 agglutination1896 percolation test1899 Pirquet test1908 skin test1908 Wassermann1909 Romberg1915 Pandy('s) test1916 glucose tolerance test1917 Kolmer1921 patch test1922 skin testing1923 provocation1924 Kolmer–Wassermann1925 Queckenstedt1928 Kline1929 Prausnitz–Küstner1929 cross-match1930 Mantoux test1931 paraffin test1935 Paul–Bunnell test1935 stress test1937 Burpee test1939 lepromin test1939 patch testing1941 pinprick1941 breath test1945 provocation test1948 protamine titration1949 Coombs test1950 smear test1950 Schilling test1955 tanned-(red-)cell1956 amniocentesis1958 Pap smear1963 Pap test1963 drugs test1967 Schultz–Charlton1974 amnio1984 cross-matching- 1916 L. F. Barker Monogr. Med. II. 83 Pandy's test has not received the attention it deserves. 1933 W. R. Brain Dis. Nerv. Syst. 113 Pandy's reaction is the most sensitive, and may yield a weakly positive result with normal fluids. 1948 R. H. Follis Pathol. Nutritional Dis. 22 (caption) She had the usual clinical story of convulsions, lead line in the bones by x-ray, elevated blood lead..and positive Pandy. 1963 Lancet 12 Jan. 108/1 Lumbar puncture on the ninth day of the illness yielded clear fluid..; the Pandy test was negative. 1989 Jrnl. Amer. Vet. Med. Assoc. 195 1754 Evaluation of CSF [= cerebrospinal fluid] revealed a high cell count, high protein concentration, and a positive Pandy test result. 2001 Indian Pediatrics 39 602 (title) An indigenous leucocyte esterase test along with Pandy's test for the diagnosis of bacterial meningitis. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). pandyv. Chiefly Scottish and Irish English. transitive. To strike or beat (a person, esp. a schoolchild) on the palm of the hand with a tawse, ruler, cane, etc., as a punishment. Also intransitive. ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > corporal punishment > administer corporal punishment [verb (transitive)] > with strap or ferule ferule1579 pandy1765 1765 S. Edwards Abstr. Eng. Gram. p. xii [The boy] is cautioned and pandy'd. 1863 C. Kingsley Water-babies v. 209 And she..pandied their hands with canes. 1875 ‘A. R. Hope’ My Schoolboy Friends 11 When he was going to be pandied. 1896 J. M. Barrie Sentimental Tommy xiv You are like Miss Ailie with her cane when she is pandying. 1907 J. M. Synge Playboy of Western World iii. 78 The world will see him pandied, and he an ugly liar. 1916 J. Joyce Portrait of Artist i. 61 It's a stinking mean thing..to pandy a fellow for what is not his fault. 1996 C. I. Macafee Conc. Ulster Dict. 246/2 Pandy, to give a pandy to (a person). This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.11765n.21857n.31916v.1765 |
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