pardi
English
Interjection
pardi
- Obsolete form of pardie.
- 1765, Laurence Sterne, The Life & Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, vol. 8 (Penguin 2003, p. 491)
- And why so many grains of calomel? santa Maria! and such a dose of opium! periclitating, pardi! the whole family of ye, from head to tail.
- 1765, Laurence Sterne, The Life & Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, vol. 8 (Penguin 2003, p. 491)
Anagrams
Estonian
Noun
pardi
French
Etymology
Alteration of pardieu.
Pronunciation
Interjection
pardi
- (dated) (yes,) obviously! (yes,) for God's sake! (yes,) of course!
Further reading
- “pardi”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Latin
Noun
(deprecated template usage) pardī