/ˈbændi/
OriginFrom French bander (“to bandy at tennis”), with -y, -ie added due to influence from Spanish and Portuguese bandear and/or Old Occitan bandir (“to throw”), from the same root as English band. Compare also with banter.
- transitiveTo give and receive reciprocally; to exchange.
“to bandy words (with somebody)”
“Incapable of hearing reproach or bandying invective, her husband had sunk into the indolence of pensive resignation, and, sensible that things had gone too far for effectual retrieve, tried to find a ”
- transitiveTo use or pass about casually.
“to have one's name bandied about (or around)”
“Let not obvious and known Truths, or some of the most plain and certain Propositions be bandy’d about in a Disputation, for a meer Trial of Skill […]”
“Technical terms like ferrite, perlite, graphite, and hardenite were bandied to and fro, and when Paget glibly brought out such a rare exotic as ferro-molybdenum, Benson forgot that he was a master shi”
- transitiveTo throw or strike reciprocally, like balls in sports.
“Do you bandy looks with me, you rascal?”
“For as whipp'd tops and bandied balls, / The learned hold, are animals; / So horses they affirm to be / Mere engines made by geometry […]”
“For, had we no Mastery at all over our Thoughts, but they were all like Tennis Balls, Bandied, and Struck upon us, as it were by Rackets from without; then could we not steadily and constantly carry o”
- intransitive, obsoleteTo fight (with or against someone).
“Brother displaie my ensignes in the field,
Ile bandie with the Barons and the Earles,
And eyther die, or liue with Gaueston.”
“Tybalt, Mercutio, the prince expressly hath
Forbidden bandying in Verona streets:”
“But when a King setts himself to bandy against the highest Court and residence of all his Regal power, he then, in the single person of a Man, fights against his own Majesty and Kingship, and then ind”
- Bow-legged, having knees bending outward.
“1794, William Blake, The Little Vagabond, third stanza
Then the Parson might preach, and drink, and sing, / And we’d be as happy as birds in the spring; / And modest Dame Lurch, who is always at churc”
“A black servant, who reposed on the box beside the fat coachman, uncurled his bandy legs as soon as the equipage drew up opposite Miss Pinkerton's shining brass plate, and as he pulled the bell at lea”
“There was an old man drying near them, squat and bandy and brown all over, and Nick remembered him from last year […]”
- uncountableA winter sport played on ice, from which ice hockey developed.
- countableA club bent at the lower part for striking a ball at play; a hockey stick.
- A carriage or cart used in India, especially one drawn by bullocks.
Formsbandies(present, singular, third-person) · bandying(participle, present) · bandied(participle, past) · bandied(past) · bandie(alternative) · bandier(comparative) · bandiest(superlative) · bandies(plural) · Bandys(plural)