'Bandy' definitions:
Definition of 'bandy'
From: WordNet
adjective
verb
Toss or strike a ball back and forth
verb
Exchange blows
verb
Discuss lightly; "We bandied around these difficult questions" [syn: bandy, kick around]
Definition of 'Bandy'
From: GCIDE
- Bandy \Ban"dy\ (b[a^]n"d[y^]), n. [Telugu ba[.n][dsdot]i.] A carriage or cart used in India, esp. one drawn by bullocks. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Bandy'
From: GCIDE
- Bandy \Ban"dy\, n.; pl. Bandies (-d[i^]z). [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. [1913 Webster]
- 2. The game played with such a club; hockey; shinney; bandy ball. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Bandy'
From: GCIDE
- Bandy \Ban"dy\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Bandied (b[a^]n"d[-e]d); p. pr. & vb. n. Bandying.]
- 1. To beat to and fro, as a ball in playing at bandy. [1913 Webster]
- Like tennis balls bandied and struck upon us . . . by rackets from without. --Cudworth. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To give and receive reciprocally; to exchange. "To bandy hasty words." --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To toss about, as from person to person; to circulate freely in a light manner; -- of ideas, facts, rumors, etc. [1913 Webster]
- Let not obvious and known truth be bandied about in a disputation. --I. Watts. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Bandy'
From: GCIDE
- Bandy \Ban"dy\, v. i. To contend, as at some game in which each strives to drive the ball his own way. [1913 Webster]
- Fit to bandy with thy lawless sons. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Bandy'
From: GCIDE
- Bandy \Ban"dy\, a. Bent; crooked; curved laterally, esp. with the convex side outward; as, a bandy leg. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'bandy'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- alternate,
- answer,
- arched,
- arciform,
- arclike,
- arcual,
- bandy-legged,
- banter,
- be quits with,
- blemished,
- bloated,
- bowed,
- bowlegged,
- bowlike,
- change,
- chuck,
- club-footed,
- commute,
- compensate,
- concave,
- convex,
- cooperate,
- counterchange,
- defaced,
- deformed,
- disfigured,
- dwarfed,
- embowed,
- exchange,
- flatfooted,
- flip,
- get back at,
- get even with,
- gibbose,
- gibbous,
- give and take,
- grotesque,
- humpbacked,
- humped,
- humpy,
- hunched,
- hunchy,
- ill-made,
- ill-proportioned,
- ill-shaped,
- interchange,
- knock-kneed,
- logroll,
- malformed,
- marred,
- misbegotten,
- misproportioned,
- misshapen,
- monstrous,
- mutilated,
- out of shape,
- oxbow,
- pay back,
- permute,
- pigeon-toed,
- pitch,
- pug-nosed,
- rachitic,
- reciprocate,
- repay,
- requite,
- respond,
- retaliate,
- retort,
- return,
- return the compliment,
- rickety,
- simous,
- snub-nosed,
- stumpy,
- swap,
- swaybacked,
- switch,
- talipedic,
- throw,
- toss,
- trade,
- transpose,
- truncated,
- vaulted