PARDON ME

Definition: PARDON ME

PARDON ME

1. Forgive me; excuse me; -- a phrase used also to express courteous denial or contradiction. Syn: To forgive; absolve; excuse; overlook; remit; acquit. See Excuse .

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Dissent

Interjection: God forbid! not for the world; I'll be hanged if; never tell me; your humble servant, pardon me.

Crosswords: PARDON ME

I wasn't toying with her sir, I wouldn't -- pardon me, how old are you, sir? (Being John Malkovich; writing credit: Charlie Kaufman)

Master Luke, sir. Pardon me for asking, but what should R2 and I do if we're discovered here? (Star Wars; writing credit: George Lucas)

Pardon me, girls. (George of the Jungle; writing credit: Jay Ward; Dana Olsen)

Well, pardon me all over the place. (Cape Fear; writing credit: John D. MacDonald; James R. Webb)

Pretty woman won't you pardon me ("Oh Pretty Woman"; performing artist: Roy Orbison)

Pardon Me (1922)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Pardon Me ... Is That The Chattanooga Choo-Choo? (reference)

• Pardon me, dearie--your values are showing (reference)

• Pardon Me, but You're Eating My Doily! and Other Embarrassing Moments of Famous People (reference)

• Pardon Me, You're Stepping on My Eyeball (reference)

• Pardon Me... Is That the Grand Ole Opry? (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• The Fearless Vampire Killers or: Pardon Me, But Your Teeth Are in My Neck (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

I do beseech your Grace to pardon me, and withal Forbear your conference with the noble Duke.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Albanian

më falni (excuse me). (various references)

Arabic 

‏معذرة (excuse), ‏لم أسمع ما قلت, ‏عفوا (think nothing of it, you are welcome). (various references)

Bulgarian 

извинете (excuse me, sorry). (various references)

Chinese 

對不起 (forgive me, I'm sorry). (various references)

Czech

promiòte (beg your pardon, excuse, excuse me, sorry), pardon (excuse me, sorry), s dovolením (with your permission). (various references)

French

excusez-moi. (various references)

German

pardon (beg your pardon, pardon, quarter, sorry), verzeihung (absolution, forgiveness, pardon, sorry), verzeihen sie (sorry), entschuldigung (apology, excuse, excuse me, pardon, sorry), entschuldigen sie (excuse me, excuse me for interrupting, Excuse my interrupting., I beg your pardon, I beg your pardon!, sorry). (various references)

Greek 

με συγχωρείτε που (pardon me for). (various references)

Hungarian

bocsásson meg (excuse me). (various references)

Malagasy

azafady (excuse me / pardon me). (various references)

Pig Latin

ardonpay emay

Romanian

scuzã-mã, iartã-mã (excuse me), daţi-mi voie (allow me, excuse me, I beg your pardon). (various references)

Russian 

извините (excuse me). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

izvinite (excuse me). (various references)

Spanish

perdóneme (excuse me). (various references)

Swahili

samahani. (various references)

Swedish

ursäkta (be sorry, excuse, excuse me, justify, pardon, sorry), hur sa?, förlåt (beg your pardon, excuse, excuse me, forgive, I`m sorry, i'm sorry, veil). (various references)

Turkish

bağışlayın, afedersiniz (excuse me, I am sorry, I beg your pardon, sorry). (various references)

Ukrainian

вибачте мені. (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: pomander.

-1 letter: aproned, madrone, manrope, operand, padrone, pandore.

-2 letters: daemon, damner, dampen, damper, enamor, moaned, moaner, modern, normed, pander, pardon, pomade, ponder, preman, radome, ramped, random, remand, repand, roamed, rodman, rodmen, romped.

-3 letters: admen, adore, adorn, amend, anode, apron, armed, arpen, demon, denar, derma, doper, drape, dream, drone, enorm, madre, maned, manor, menad, monad, monde.

+1 letter: pomanders, promenade.

+2 letters: palindrome, promenaded, promenader, promenades.

+3 letters: madreporian, monographed, palindromes, predominant, predominate, promenaders, promenading.

+4 letters: deprograming, dopaminergic, impersonated, imponderable, imponderably, madreporians, preadmission, predominance, predominancy, predominated, predominates, prenominated, pseudorandom, pyridoxamine, unprogrammed.

+5 letters: commandership, compartmented, deprogramming, imponderables, intercompared, preadmissions, predominances, predominantly, predominately, predominating, predomination, premeditation, preordainment, pyridoxamines.