Bandy
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English
Verb
Bandy (third-person singular simple present bandies, present participle bandying, simple past and past participle bandied)
- To give and receive reciprocally; to exchange.
- To use or pass about casually.
Adjective
Bandy (not comparable)
- Bowlegged, or bending outward at the knees; as in bandy legged.
Noun
Bandy (uncountable)- (sports) A winter sport played on ice, from which ice hockey has developed.
Adverbs for Bandy
- (to exchange, kick around) mercilessly; repeatedly; continuously; freely; haphazardly; thoughtlessly.
Thesaurus
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
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Middle French from bander.
Etymology 2
Etymology 3
Possibly from the Welsh word bando most likely derived from the Proto-Germanic *bandja (“a curved stick”).
Translations
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Scots
Adjective
Bandy (not comparable)
- Bowlegged, or bending outward at the knees; as in bandy legged.
Noun
Bandy (plural bandies)- A minnow; a stickleback.
