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adjective

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

noun

Bandy n. A carriage or cart used in India, esp. one drawn by bullocks.

Bandy n. (pl. bandies)

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

The game played with such a club; hockey; shinney; bandy ball.

verb

Bandy v. t. (past & past part. bandied; pres. part. bandying)

To beat to and fro, as a ball in playing at bandy. "Like tennis balls bandied and struck upon us... by rackets from without."

To give and receive reciprocally; to exchange. "To bandy hasty words."

To toss about, as from person to person; to circulate freely in a light manner; of ideas, facts, rumors, etc. "Let not obvious and known truth be bandied about in a disputation."

Bandy v. i. To contend, as at some game in which each strives to drive the ball his own way. "Fit to bandy with thy lawless sons."

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Etymology of 'Bandy'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Bandy" Quotes from Famous Books

... black rascal, and a Dutchman to boot', to insult a lady and an old man at once. If you could see the difference between one negro and another, you would be quite convinced that education (i.e. circumstances) makes the race. It was hardly conceivable that the hideous, dirty, bandy-legged, ragged creature, who looked down on the Bosjesman, and the well- made, smart fellow, with his fine eyes, jaunty red cap, and snow- white shirt and trousers, alert as the best German Kellner, were of the same blood; nothing but ...

— Letters from the Cape • Lady Duff Gordon

... ten-by- twelve frame office that preliminary yell announcing that Calliope was feeling blue. When the signal came the city marshal rose to his feet and buckled on his guns. Two deputy sheriffs and three citizens who had proven the edible qualities of fire also stood up, ready to bandy ...

— Heart of the West • O. Henry

... in leaping fences, which they are more apt to do when they become blown and consequently weak. The fore legs, 'straight as arrows,' is an admirable illustration of perfection in those parts by Beckford; for, as in a bow or bandy legged man, nothing is so disfiguring to a hound as having his elbows projecting, and which is likewise a ...

— The Dog - A nineteenth-century dog-lovers' manual, - a combination of the essential and the esoteric. • William Youatt

... be a "big, big D," an' then a dash thereafter, For Andy would na spoil the word by trying to make it safter; He's not the lad to juggle terms, or soothing speech to bandy. A blunt, straightforward mon is he—an' "That's damned white ...

— Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie • Andrew Carnegie

... from the Terrorist to Juliette whilst the search was being conducted in the study. At the time he had merely looked upon these as a base attempt at insult, and had tortured himself almost beyond bearing, in the endeavour to refrain from punishing that evilmouthed creature, who dared to bandy words with his madonna. ...

— I Will Repay • Baroness Emmuska Orczy

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