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Bandy Definition And Meaning
What's The Definition Of Bandy? [adj] have legs that curve outward at the knees [v] toss or strike a ball back and forth, as in tennis, hockey, etc. [v] discuss lightly; "We bandied around these difficult questions" [v] exchange blows Synonyms \| Synonyms for Bandy: bandy-legged \| bowed \| bowleg \| bowlegged \| kick around \| unfit Related Terms \| Find terms related to Bandy: alternate \| answer \| arched \| arciform \| arclike \| arcual \| bandy-legged \| banter \| be quits with \| blemished \| bloated \| bowed \| bowlegged \| bowlike \| change \| chuck \| club-footed \| commute \| compensate \| concave \| convex \| cooperate \| counterchange \| defaced \| deformed \| disfigured \| dwarfed \| embowed \| exchange \| flatfooted \| flip \| get back at \| get even with \| gibbose \| gibbous \| give and take \| grotesque \| humpbacked \| humped \| humpy \| hunched \| hunchy \| ill-made \| ill-proportioned \| ill-shaped \| interchange \| knock-kneed \| logroll \| malformed \| marred \| misbegotten \| misproportioned \| misshapen \| monstrous \| mutilated \| out of shape \| oxbow \| pay back \| permute \| pigeon-toed \| pitch \| pug-nosed \| rachitic \| reciprocate \| repay \| requite \| respond \| retaliate \| retort \| return \| return the compliment \| rickety \| simous \| snub-nosed \| stumpy \| swap \| swaybacked \| switch \| talipedic \| throw \| toss \| trade \| transpose \| truncated \| vaulted See Also \| discuss \| fight \| play \| shuttlecock \| struggle \| talk over Bandy In Webster's Dictionary \Ban"dy\, n. [Telugu bandi.] A carriage or cart used in India, esp. one drawn by bullocks. \Ban"dy\, n.; pl. {Bandies}. [Cf. F. band['e], 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. 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. Bent; crooked; curved laterally, esp. with the convex side outward; as, a bandy leg.

Bandy Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Bandy?

[adj] have legs that curve outward at the knees
[v] toss or strike a ball back and forth, as in tennis, hockey, etc.
[v] discuss lightly; "We bandied around these difficult questions"
[v] exchange blows

Bandy In Webster's Dictionary

\Ban"dy\, n. [Telugu bandi.]
A carriage or cart used in India, esp. one drawn by bullocks.


\Ban"dy\, n.; pl. {Bandies}. [Cf. F. band['e], 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.
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.
Bent; crooked; curved laterally, esp. with the convex side
outward; as, a bandy leg.

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