Bandy word meaning and definition
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Meaning and definition for "bandy" word
[verb] toss or strike a ball back and forth, as in tennis, hockey, etc.
[verb] discuss lightly; "We bandied around these difficult questions"
[verb] exchange blows
\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.
Synonyms for bandy
bandy-legged, bowed, bowleg, bowlegged, kick around, unfit
See also: discuss | fight | play | shuttlecock | struggle | talk over |
Related terms: arched, arciform, arclike, bandy-legged, banter, bowed, bowlike, compensate, concave, flip, get back at, humpy, ill-made, knock-kneed, marred, misshapen, monstrous, mutilated, oxbow, permute, swaybacked, transpose
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Let's analyse "bandy" as pure text. This string has Five letters in Two syllables and One vowel (In our algorithm Y is not counted as vowel, but in English language, sometimes it sounds like one). 20% of vowels is 18.6% less then average English word. Written in backwards: YDNAB. Average typing speed for these characters is 1340 milliseconds. [info]
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Numerology Hearts desire number calculated from vowels:
bandy: 1 = 1, reduced: 1 (or 8 if Y is vowel too). and the final result is One. |
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