bandy

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: băn'di, IPA^(key): /ˈbændi/

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• Rhymes: -ændi

Etymology 1

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.

Alternative forms

• bandie

Verb

bandy (third-person singular simple present bandies, present participle bandying, simple past and past participle bandied)

1. (transitive) To give and receive reciprocally; to exchange.

   to bandy words (with somebody)

   • 1842, [anonymous collaborator of Letitia Elizabeth Landon], chapter XXIX, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 76:

     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. (transitive) To use or pass about casually.

   to have one's name bandied about (or around)

   • 1741, I[saac] Watts, chapter 13, in The Improvement of the Mind: Or, A Supplement to the Art of Logick: […], London: […] James Brackstone, […], →OCLC, paragraph 20.3, page 187:

     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 […]

   • 1928, Lawrence R. Bourne, chapter 4, in Well Tackled!‎^[1]:

     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, […]

3. (transitive) To throw or strike reciprocally, like balls in sports.
   • c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iv]:

     Do you bandy looks with me, you rascal?

   • 1662, [Samuel Butler], “[The First Part of Hudibras]”, in Hudibras. The First and Second Parts. […], London: […] John Martyn and Henry Herringman, […], published 1678, →OCLC; republished in A[lfred] R[ayney] Waller, editor, Hudibras: Written in the Time of the Late Wars, Cambridge: University Press, 1905, →OCLC, canto 2:

     For as whipp'd tops and bandied balls, / The learned hold, are animals; / So horses they affirm to be / Mere engines made by geometry […]

   • 1678, Ralph Cudworth, The True Intellectual System of the Universe‎^[2], London: Richard Royston, Book I, Chapter 5, p:

     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.

4. (obsolete, intransitive) To fight (with or against someone).
   • 1594 (first publication), Christopher Marlow[e], The Trovblesome Raigne and Lamentable Death of Edvvard the Second, King of England: […], London: […] [Eliot’s Court Press] for Henry Bell, […], published 1622, →OCLC, (please specify the page):

     Brother displaie my ensignes in the field,
     Ile bandie with the Barons and the Earles,
     And eyther die, or liue with Gaueston.

   • c. 1591–1595 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i]:

     Tybalt, Mercutio, the prince expressly hath
     Forbidden bandying in Verona streets:

   • 1649, J[ohn] Milton, chapter 18, in ΕΙΚΟΝΟΚΛΆΣΤΗΣ [Eikonoklástēs] […], London: […] Matthew Simmons, […], →OCLC, pages 160-161:

     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.

Derived terms

• bandy about
• bandy around

 

Translations

to give and receive reciprocally

• Bulgarian: разменям си (razmenjam si)
• Czech: vyměňovat si impf, oplácet si impf
• German: wechseln (de), austauschen (de)
• Spanish: intercambiar (es), cambiar (es)

to use or pass about casually

• Bulgarian: подмятам (bg) (podmjatam)
• Maori: makamaka, whiuwhiu

Etymology 2

From Scots bandy.

Adjective

bandy (comparative bandier, superlative bandiest)

1. Bowlegged, 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.

   • 1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 1, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC:

     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.

   • 2004, Alan Hollinghurst, chapter 7, in The Line of Beauty […], 1st US edition, New York, N.Y.: Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN:

     There was an old man drying near them, squat and bandy and brown all over, and Nick remembered him from last year […]

Derived terms

• bandy-legged

 

Translations

bowlegged

• Bulgarian: кривокрак (krivokrak)
• Catalan: camatort (ca)
• Danish: hjulbenet
• German: o-beinig (de)
• Maori: waewae hao
• Polish: krzywonogi (pl), szpotawy
• Romanian: crăcănat (ro)
• Spanish: arqueado (es)

Etymology 3

Probably from the verb bandy in the sense "toss/bat back and forth", or possibly from the Welsh word bando, most likely derived from the Proto-Germanic *bandją (“a curved stick”).

Noun

bandy (countable and uncountable, plural bandies)

1. (sports, uncountable) A winter sport played on ice, from which ice hockey developed.
2. (sports, countable) A club bent at the lower part for striking a ball at play; a hockey stick.

Translations

winter sport played on ice

• Danish: bandy c
• Dutch: bandy n
• Estonian: jääpall
• Finnish: jääpallo (fi)
• French: bandy (fr) m
• German: Bandy n
• Italian: bandy m
• Norwegian: bandy c
• Polish: bandy (pl) m
• Russian: хокке́й с мячом m (xokkéj s mjačom)
• Swedish: bandy (sv) c

Etymology 4

Borrowed from Telugu బండి (baṇḍi).

Noun

bandy (plural bandies)

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

Anagrams

• Danby

Scots

Adjective

bandy (not comparable)

1. Bowlegged, or bending outward at the knees; as in bandy legged.

Noun

bandy (plural bandies)

1. A minnow; a stickleback.

Alternative forms

• baanie
• bandie

References

• “bandy” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.

Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from English bandy. Attested since 1894.

Noun

bandy c

1. (sports) bandy (team sport)

Declension

Declension of bandy
	Uncountable
	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	bandy	bandyn	—	—
Genitive	bandys	bandyns	—	—

Derived terms

• innebandy (“floorball”)

References

• bandy in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• bandy in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)