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A number of places in Wales:
A hamlet near Brynglas, Bryn-crug community, Gwynedd (OS grid ref SH6202).
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A number of places in Wales:
A hamlet in Dolgellau community, Gwynedd (OS grid ref SH7217).
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name
A number of places in Wales:
A hamlet in Llanuwchllyn community, Gwynedd (OS grid ref SH8729).
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name
A number of places in Wales:
A small village in Crucorney community, north Monmouthshire (OS grid ref SO3322).
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name
A number of places in Wales:
A hamlet north of Llanbrynmair, Powys, properly Pandy-rhiw-Saeson (OS grid ref SH9004)
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name
A number of places in Wales:
A hamlet in Willington Worthenbury community, Wrexham borough, south-east of Bangor-on-Dee (OS grid ref SJ4243).
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name
A number of places in Wales:
A hamlet in Llansantffraid Glyn Ceiriog community, Wrexham borough, south of Glyn Ceiriog (OS grid ref SJ1935).
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name
A number of places in Wales:
A village in Wrexham borough, north of the town of Wrexham (OS grid ref SJ3353; not marked on OS maps).
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noun
A fulling mill.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
mashed potatoes
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Ireland, countable, informal, uncountable
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noun
A slap on the palm of the hand with a strap.
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noun
Hand.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: broadly, slang
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noun
A mutineer.
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noun
Alternative form of pandy.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of, alternative
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verb
To strike on the palm of the hand with a strap as a school punishment.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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verb
To distribute or publicize, especially in order to curry favor.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: nonstandard, rare
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History
From Welsh pandy (“fulling house”).
From Latin pande (“hold out”), in schoolmaster commands pande manum "hold out [your] hand" or pande palmum "hold out [your] palm".
After a corruption of Mangal Pandey, who started the Indian Mutiny of 1857.
Blend of pander + bandy, by confusion.
