bandy

• enPR: băn'di, IPA^(key): /ˈbændi/

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From 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.

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bandy (third-person singular simple present bandies, present participle bandying, simple past and past participle bandied)

1. (transitive) To give and receive reciprocally; to exchange.

   to bandy words (with somebody)

   • 1842, [anonymous collaborator of Letitia Elizabeth Landon], chapter XXIX, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], OCLC 1000392275, page 76:

     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 lenitive in the love of his sister, and the often disappointed hope of a son, during whose long minority wonders were to be done in the management of his property.

2. (transitive) To use or pass about casually.

   to have one's name bandied about (or around)

   • 1741, I[saac] Watts, chapter 13, in The Improvement of the Mind: Or, A Supplement to the Art of Logick: […], London: […] James Brackstone, […], OCLC 723474632, paragraph 20.3, page 187:

     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 […]

   • 1928, Lawrence R. Bourne, chapter 4, in Well Tackled!‎:

     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 ship-builder, […]

3. (transitive) To throw or strike reciprocally, like balls in sports.
   • c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act I, scene iv]:

     Do you bandy looks with me, you rascal?

   • 1662, [Samuel Butler], “[The First Part of Hudibras]”, in Hudibras. The First and Second Parts. […], London: […] John Martyn and Henry Herringman, […], published 1678, OCLC 890163163; republished in A[lfred] R[ayney] Waller, editor, Hudibras: Written in the Time of the Late Wars, Cambridge: University Press, 1905, OCLC 963614346, canto 2:

     For as whipp'd tops and bandied balls, / The learned hold, are animals; / So horses they affirm to be / Mere engines made by geometry […]

   • 1678, Ralph Cudworth, The True Intellectual System of the Universe, London: Richard Royston, Book I, Chapter 5, p. ,

     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 on any Designs and Purposes of Life.

4. (obsolete, intransitive) To fight (with or against someone).
   • 1594 (first publication), Christopher Marlow[e], The Trovblesome Raigne and Lamentable Death of Edvvard the Second, King of England: […], London: […] [Eliot’s Court Press] for Henry Bell, […], published 1622, OCLC 837836359, (please specify the page):

     Brother displaie my ensignes in the field,
     Ile bandie with the Barons and the Earles,
     And eyther die, or liue with Gaueston.

   • c. 1591–1595 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act III, scene i]:

     Tybalt, Mercutio, the prince expressly hath
     Forbidden bandying in Verona streets:

   • 1649, J[ohn] Milton, chapter 18, in ΕΙΚΟΝΟΚΛΆΣΤΗΣ [Eikonoklástēs] […], London: […] Matthew Simmons, […], OCLC 1044608640, page 160-161:

     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 indeed sets the first hand to his own deposing.

From Scots bandy.

bandy (comparative bandier, superlative bandiest)

1. Bowlegged, or bending outward at the knees; as in bandy-legged.
   • 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 church, / Would not have bandy children, nor fasting, nor birch.

   • 1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 1, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, OCLC 3174108:

     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 least a score of young heads were seen peering out of the narrow windows of the stately old brick house.

   • 2004, Alan Hollinghurst, chapter 7, in The Line of Beauty, New York: Bloomsbury, OCLC 1036692193:

     There was an old man drying near them, squat and bandy and brown all over, and Nick remembered him from last year […]

Probably from the verb bandy in the sense "toss/bat back and forth",[1] or possibly from the Welsh word bando, most likely derived from the Proto-Germanic *bandją (“a curved stick”).

bandy (uncountable)

1. (sports) A winter sport played on ice, from which ice hockey developed.
2. A club bent at the lower part for striking a ball at play; a hockey stick.

From Telugu [Term?].

bandy (plural bandies)

1. A carriage or cart used in India, especially one drawn by bullocks.

• Danby

bandy (not comparable)

1. Bowlegged, or bending outward at the knees; as in bandy legged.

bandy (plural bandies)

1. A minnow; a stickleback.

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• bandie

• “bandy” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.