bandy Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. verb toss or strike a ball back and forth
  2. verb exchange blows
  3. verb discuss lightly
    kick around.
    • We bandied around these difficult questions
  4. adjective satellite have legs that curve outward at the knees
    bowed; bowlegged; bowleg; bandy-legged.

WordNet

Ban"dy noun
Etymology
Telugu bandi.
Definitions
  1. A carriage or cart used in India, esp. one drawn by bullocks.
Ban"dy noun
Etymology
Cf. F. bandé, p.p. of bander to bind, to bend (a bow), to bandy, fr. bande. See Band, n.
Wordforms
plural Bandies
Definitions
  1. A club bent at the lower part for striking a ball at play; a hockey stick. Johnson.
  2. The game played with such a club; hockey; shinney; bandy ball.
Ban"dy transitive verb
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Bandied (); present participle & verbal noun Bandying
Definitions
  1. To beat to and fro, as a ball in playing at bandy.
    Like tennis balls bandied and struck upon us . . . by rackets from without. Cudworth.
  2. To give and receive reciprocally; to exchange. "To bandy hasty words." Shak.
  3. To toss about, as from man to man; to agitate.
    Let not obvious and known truth be bandied about in a disputation. I. Watts.
Ban"dy intransitive verb
Definitions
  1. To content, as at some game in which each strives to drive the ball his own way.
    Fit to bandy with thy lawless sons. Shak.
Ban"dy adjective
Definitions
  1. Bent; crooked; curved laterally, esp. with the convex side outward; as, a bandy leg.

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