bandy
Part of speech: verb
adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Etymology: 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.
Inflected forms:
form: bandies
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: bandying
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: bandied
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: bandied
pos: verb
tags: past
form: bandie
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: bandier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: bandiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: bandies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To give and receive reciprocally; to exchange.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to bandy words (with somebody)
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.
gloss: To use or pass about casually.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to have one's name bandied about (or around)
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 […]
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, […]
gloss: To throw or strike reciprocally, like balls in sports.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Do you bandy looks with me, you rascal?
For as whipp'd tops and bandied balls, / The learned hold, are animals; / So horses they affirm to be / Mere engines made by geometry […]
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.
gloss: To fight (with or against someone).
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
obsolete
examples: Brother displaie my ensignes in the field,
Ile bandie with the Barons and the Earles,
And eyther die, or liue with Gaueston.
Tybalt, Mercutio, the prince expressly hath
Forbidden bandying in Verona streets:
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.
gloss: Bow-legged, having knees bending outward.
pos: adj
examples: 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.
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.
There was an old man drying near them, squat and bandy and brown all over, and Nick remembered him from last year […]
gloss: A winter sport played on ice, from which ice hockey developed.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: A club bent at the lower part for striking a ball at play; a hockey stick.
pos: noun
tags: countable
Derived words: bandy about
bandy around
bandy words
bandyball
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