pardie
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From Middle English parde, from Anglo-Norman pardi, pardeu, and Old French pardeu, from par (“by”) + Deu (“God”).
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pardie
- By God!
- 1577, Martial, “Epigrammes out of Martial. [To Parthenope.]”, in Timothe Kendall, transl., Flowers of Epigrammes […], [Manchester]: […] [Charles Simms] for the Spenser Society, published 1874, →OCLC, pages 56–57:
- Yet notwithſtandyng all this geare, / thou cougheſt ſtill, perdy / Ye are a craftie knaue, you cough / to fare deliciouſly.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- “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, 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?”