BANDY

bandy, bandy-legged, bowed, bowleg, bowlegged

(adjective) have legs that curve outward at the knees

bandy, kick around

(verb) discuss lightly; “We bandied around these difficult questions”

bandy

(verb) exchange blows

bandy

(verb) toss or strike a ball back and forth

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Proper noun

Bandy (plural Bandys)

A surname.

Statistics

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Bandy is the 4133^rd most common surname in the United States, belonging to 8582 individuals. Bandy is most common among White (79.54%) and Black/African American (14.43%) individuals.

Anagrams

• Danby

Etymology 1

Verb

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

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

(transitive) To use or pass about casually.

(transitive) To throw or strike reciprocally, like balls in sports.

(obsolete, intransitive) To fight (with or against someone).

Etymology 2

Adjective

bandy (comparative bandier, superlative bandiest)

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

Etymology 3

Noun

bandy (uncountable)

(sports) A winter sport played on ice, from which ice hockey developed.

A club bent at the lower part for striking a ball at play; a hockey stick.

Etymology 4

Noun

bandy (plural bandies)

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

Anagrams

• Danby

Source: Wiktionary

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Ban"dy, n. Etym: [Telugu bandi.]

Definition: A carriage or cart used in India, esp. one drawn by bullocks.

Ban"dy, n.; pl. Bandies (. Etym: [Cf. F. bandé, p.p. of bander to bind, to bend (a bow), to bandy, fr. bande. See Band, n.]

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, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Bandied (p. pr. & vb. n. Bandying.]

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, v. i.

Definition: 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, a.

Definition: Bent; crooked; curved laterally, esp. with the convex side outward; as, a bandy leg.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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