bandy

adj

Etymology: Etymology tree Scots bandybor. English bandy Borrowed from Scots bandy.

1. Bow-legged, having knees bending outward.

   “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.”

name

1. A surname.

noun

Etymology: Etymology tree Telugu బండి (baṇḍi)bor. English bandy Borrowed from Telugu బండి (baṇḍi).

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

verb

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.

1. To give and receive reciprocally; to exchange.

   “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.”

2. To use or pass about casually.

   “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 […]”

3. To throw or strike reciprocally, like balls in sports.

   “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 […]”

4. To fight (with or against someone).

   “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:”