pardie
English
Alternative forms
- pardi, pardy
- perdy, perdie
Etymology
From Middle English parde, from Anglo-Norman pardi, pardeu, and Old French pardeu, from par (“by”) + Deu (“God”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /pɑːˈdi/
- Homophone: party (in accents with flapping)
Interjection
pardie
- By God!
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938:
- “Perdy,” (said Britomart) “the choise is hard; / But what reward had he that overcame?”
- 1842, Alfred Tennyson, “The Day-Dream”, in Poems. […], volume II, London: Edward Moxon, […], OCLC 1008064829, page 157:
- “Pardy,” return’d the king, “but still / My joints are somewhat stiff or so. / My lord, and shall we pass the bill / I mention’d half an hour ago?”
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Anagrams
- Piedra, aperid, diaper, paired, piedra, repaid