pandybat

English

Etymology

Seems to have been used in Ireland for much of the 20th century. Since James Joyce cites it in the context of a Catholic school in his novel, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, it may have been a pun on the Latin word pendebat, but was more probably derived from the Latin words pande manum, meaning "hold out your hand".

Noun

pandybat (plural pandybats)

A stout leather strap reinforced internally with whalebone or even lead and used to inflict punishment, especially by striking the palms of schoolboys.
- 1916, James Joyce, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
  The soutane sleeve swished again as the pandybat was lifted and a loud crashing sound and a fierce maddening tingling burning pain made his hand shrink together […]

单词	pandybat
释义	pandybat English Etymology Seems to have been used in Ireland for much of the 20th century. Since James Joyce cites it in the context of a Catholic school in his novel, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, it may have been a pun on the Latin word pendebat, but was more probably derived from the Latin words pande manum, meaning "hold out your hand". Noun pandybat (plural pandybats) A stout leather strap reinforced internally with whalebone or even lead and used to inflict punishment, especially by striking the palms of schoolboys. 1916, James Joyce, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man The soutane sleeve swished again as the pandybat was lifted and a loud crashing sound and a fierce maddening tingling burning pain made his hand shrink together […]
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