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adjective

Bandy adj. Bent; crooked; curved laterally, esp. with the convex side outward; as, a bandy leg.

noun

Bandy n. A carriage or cart used in India, esp. one drawn by bullocks.

Bandy n. (pl. bandies)

A club bent at the lower part for striking a ball at play; a hockey stick.

The game played with such a club; hockey; shinney; bandy ball.

verb

Bandy v. t. (past & past part. bandied; pres. part. bandying)

To beat to and fro, as a ball in playing at bandy. "Like tennis balls bandied and struck upon us... by rackets from without."

To give and receive reciprocally; to exchange. "To bandy hasty words."

To toss about, as from person to person; to circulate freely in a light manner; of ideas, facts, rumors, etc. "Let not obvious and known truth be bandied about in a disputation."

Bandy v. i. To contend, as at some game in which each strives to drive the ball his own way. "Fit to bandy with thy lawless sons."

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"Bandy" Quotes from Famous Books

... here to bandy words. The second part of your book must be written to suit the rules of our Society. Do you agree, or shall we throw ...

— Tales of St. Austin's • P. G. Wodehouse

... a statement is very misleading, and cannot, in these days of enlightenment on Chinese topics, be allowed to pass unchallenged. "I hear you have obtained one thousand ounces of gold," is perhaps the commonest of those flowery metaphors which the Chinese delight to bandy on such an auspicious occasion; another being, "You have a bright pearl in your hand," &c., &c. The truth is that parents in China are just as fond of all their children as people in other and more civilised countries, where male children are also eagerly desired to ...

— Chinese Sketches • Herbert A. Giles

... a queer customer!' 'I am going to vaccinate for the smallpox,' said I. 'And what is that to you?' 'Well, if that's so,' says he, 'vaccinate me. He bared his arm and thrust it under my nose. Of course, I did not bandy words with him; I just vaccinated him to get rid of him. Afterwards I looked at my lancet and ...

— The Horse-Stealers and Other Stories • Anton Chekhov

... not invited to join the reply of our distinguished scholars and professors, perhaps because it is so many years since I was the colleague of James Bryce as Professor of Jurisprudence to the Inns of Court. And, indeed, I do not care to bandy recriminations with these German defenders of the attack on civilization by the whole imperial, military, and bureaucratic order. It seems to me waste of time and loss of self-respect to notice ...

— New York Times, Current History, Vol 1, Issue 1 - From the Beginning to March, 1915 With Index • Various

... the centinel, speaking to a little dwarfish bandy-legg'd drummer, that so courteous a soul should have lost his scabbard—he cannot travel without one to his scymetar, and will not be able to get a scabbard to fit it in all Strasburg.—I never had one, replied the stranger, ...

— The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman • Laurence Sterne

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