What does bandy mean?

Definitions for bandy
ˈbæn dibandy

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. bandy, bandy-legged, bowed, bowleg, bowleggedverb

    have legs that curve outward at the knees

  2. bandyverb

    toss or strike a ball back and forth

  3. bandyverb

    exchange blows

  4. bandy, kick aroundverb

    discuss lightly

    "We bandied around these difficult questions"

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Bandynoun

    A club turned round at bottom for striking a ball at play.

    Etymology: from bander, Fr.

  2. To Bandyverb

    Etymology: probably from bandy, the instrument with which they strike balls at play, which being crooked, is named from the term bander un arc, to string or bend a bow.

    They do cunningly, from one hand to another, bandy the service like a tennis-ball. Edmund Spenser, Ireland.

    And like a ball bandy’d ’twixt pride and wit,
    Rather than yield, both sides the prize will quit. John Denham.

    What, from the tropicks, can the earth repel?
    What vigorous arm, what repercussive blow,
    Bandies the mighty globe still to and fro? Richard Blackmore.

    Do you bandy looks with me, you rascal? William Shakespeare, K. Lear.

    ’Tis not in thee
    To grudge my pleasures, to cut off my train,
    To bandy hasty words. William Shakespeare, King Lear.

    This hath been so bandied amongst us, that one can hardly miss books of this kind. John Locke.

    Ever since men have been united into governments, the endeavours after universal monarchy have been bandied among them. Jonathan Swift.

    Let not obvious and known truths, or some of the most plain and certain propositions, be bandied about in a disputation. Isaac Watts, Improvement of the Mind.

  3. To Bandyverb

    To contend, as at some game, in which each strives to drive the ball his own way.

    No simple man that sees
    This factious bandying of their favourites,
    But that he doth presage some ill event. William Shakespeare, Henry VI.

    A valiant son in law thou shalt enjoy:
    One fit to bandy with thy lawless sons,
    To ruffle in the commonwealth. William Shakespeare, Tit. Andron.

    Could set up grandee against grandee,
    To squander time away, and bandy,
    Make lords and commoners lay sieges
    To one another’s privileges. Hudibras.

    After all the bandying attempts of resolution, it is as much a question as ever. Joseph Glanvill, Scepsis, c. iv.

Wikipedia

  1. Bandy

    Bandy is a winter sport and ball sport played by two teams wearing ice skates on a large ice surface (either indoors or outdoors) while using sticks to direct a ball into the opposing team's goal.The playing surface, called a bandy field or bandy rink, is a sheet of ice which measures 90–110 meters by 45–65 meters – about the size of a football pitch. The field is considerably larger than the ice rinks commonly used for ice hockey, short-track speed skating, or figure skating. The sport is considered a form of hockey and has a common background with association football (soccer), ice hockey, shinty and field hockey. Bandy's origins are debatable, but its first rules were organized and published in England in 1882. Internationally, bandy's strongest nations in both men's and women's competitions at present are Sweden and Russia with both countries having established professional men's bandy leagues. In Russia it is estimated that more than one million people play bandy. The sport also has organised league play and dedicated fans in other countries, most notably Finland, Norway, and Kazakhstan. The premier international bandy competition for men is the Bandy World Championship and the premier international bandy competition for women is the Women's Bandy World Championship. The international governing body for bandy is the Federation of International Bandy (FIB). In 2001, bandy was recognized as a sport by the International Olympic Committee (IOC). Both traditional eleven-a-side bandy and rink bandy (which is played on a smaller rink) are recognized by the IOC. Based on the number of participating athletes, the FIB has claimed bandy is the world's second-most participated winter sport after ice hockey but is not recorded how many of these participants are male and how many are female.

ChatGPT

  1. bandy

    Bandy has several definitions depending on the context: 1) Sports: It is a team winter sport played on ice where players use sticks to direct a ball into the opposing team's goal - similar to hockey. 2) Verb: In conversational English, it means to exchange or toss back and forth, often referring to verbal ideas, arguments or compliments. 3) Adjective: Describing legs that are bowed outward at or below the knee.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Bandynoun

    a carriage or cart used in India, esp. one drawn by bullocks

  2. Bandynoun

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

  3. Bandynoun

    the game played with such a club; hockey; shinney; bandy ball

  4. Bandyverb

    to beat to and fro, as a ball in playing at bandy

  5. Bandyverb

    to give and receive reciprocally; to exchange

  6. Bandyverb

    to toss about, as from man to man; to agitate

  7. Bandyverb

    to content, as at some game in which each strives to drive the ball his own way

  8. Bandyadjective

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

Wikidata

  1. Bandy

    Bandy is a team winter sport played on ice, in which skaters use sticks to direct a ball into the opposing team's goal.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Bandy

    ban′di, n. a club bent at the end for striking a ball: a game at ball with such a club (bandy-ball = hockey).—v.t. to beat to and fro as with a bandy: to toss from one to another (as words with any one) = to discuss or debate; to give and take blows or reproaches: (Shak.) to fight, strive:—pa.p. ban′died.—n. Ban′dying.adj. Ban′dy-legged, having bandy or crooked legs. [Fr. bander, perh. conn. with bande, a side.]

Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. BANDY

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Bandy is ranked #4133 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Bandy surname appeared 8,582 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 3 would have the surname Bandy.

    79.5% or 6,826 total occurrences were White.
    14.4% or 1,238 total occurrences were Black.
    2.5% or 220 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
    1.7% or 154 total occurrences were of two or more races.
    1% or 88 total occurrences were Asian.
    0.6% or 56 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of bandy in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of bandy in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of bandy in a Sentence

  1. George Steiner:

    The violent illiteracies of the graffiti, the clenched silence of the adolescent, the nonsense cries from the stage-happening, are resolutely strategic. The insurgent and the freak-out have broken off discourse with a cultural system which they despise as a cruel, antiquated fraud. They will not bandy words with it. Accept, even momentarily, the conventions of literate linguistic exchange, and you are caught in the net of the old values, of the grammars that can condescend or enslave.

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