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Pondy vs Pandy - What's the difference?

pondy | pandy |

As an adjective pondy

is resembling a pond; pondlike.

As a noun pandy is

a fulling mill.

As a verb pandy is

to strike on the palm of the hand with a strap as a school punishment.

pondy

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Resembling a pond; pondlike
  • *{{quote-book, year=1851, author=Henry Rowe Schoolcraft, title=Personal Memoirs Of A Residence Of Thirty Years With The Indian Tribes On The American Frontiers, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Our tea was made of a brown pondy liquid, which looked like water in a tanner's vat. }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1911, author=Dallas Lore Sharp, title=Roof and Meadow, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=And faint across the creek, the road, and the fields lay the pondy smell of spatter-docks. }}
  • * 2011 , (Gnomeo and Juliet)
  • *:Juliet, is there something wrong with the pond?
  • *:No, it's fine, I mean, it's just as pondy as ever.

    • pandy

    English

    Etymology 1

    Noun

    (pandies)
  • A fulling mill.

    • Noun

    (-)
  • (Ireland, informal) mashed potatoes

    • Etymology 2

    Verb

  • To strike on the palm of the hand with a strap as a school punishment.
  • * 1917 , James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
    • Father Dolan came in today and pandied me because I was not writing my theme.
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