pandy

Meanings

Noun

• A fulling mill.
• mashed potatoes
• A slap on the palm of the hand with a strap.
• Hand.
• A mutineer.

Verb

• To strike on the palm of the hand with a strap as a school punishment.
• To distribute or publicize, especially in order to curry favor.

Origin

• From Welsh pannu ("fulling") and Welsh tŷ ("house")
• From Latin pande ("hold out"), imperative of pandere.
• After a corruption of Mangal Pandey, who started the Indian Mutiny of 1857.