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Definition: Bandy |
BandyAdjective1. Have legs that curve outward at the knees. Verb1. Toss or strike a ball back and forth, as in tennis, hockey, etc. 2. Exchange blows. 3. Discuss lightly; "We bandied around these difficult questions". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "bandy" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references) |
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Literature | Bandy I am not going to bandy words with you - i.e. to dispute about words. The reference is to a game called Bandy. The players have each a stick with a crook at the end to strike a wooden or other hard ball. The ball is bandied from side to side, each party trying to beat it home to the opposite goal. (Anglo-Saxon, bendan, to bend.) "The bat was called a bandy from its being bent." - Brand: Popular Antiquities (article "Golf," p. 538). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Bandy was the demonstration sport at the VI Olympic Winter Games in 1952 (Oslo, Norway).
The size of a bandy field is in the range 4,050 - 7,150 square metres (45-65 by 90-100 metres). The size of the ball is 60-65 mm and is red to orange in color.
FIB, the Federation for International Bandy, has got 12 members (2002).
External Links
National bandyfederations
bandy is a Scottish word meaning bow-legged
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Synonyms: BandySynonyms: bandy-legged (adj), bowed (adj), bowleg (adj), bowlegged (adj), kick around (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Agitation | Agitate, shake, convulse, toss, tumble, bandy, wield, brandish, flap, flourish, whisk, jerk, hitch, jolt; jog, joggle, jostle, buffet, hustle, disturb, stir, shake up, churn, jounce, wallop, whip, vellicate. |
Contention | Contend; with, grapple with, engage with, close with, buckle with, bandy with, try conclusions with, have a brush; n. with, tilt with; encounter, fall foul of, pitch into, clapperclaw, run a tilt at; oppose; reluct. |
Conversation | Verb: talk together, converse, confabulate; hold on a conversation, carry on a conversation, join in a conversation, engage in a conversation; put in a word; shine in conversation; bandy words; parley; palaver; chat, gossip, tattle; prate; (loquacity); powwow. |
Distortion | Adjective: distorted; Verb: out of shape, irregular, asymmetric, unsymmetric, awry, wry, askew, crooked; not true, not straight; on one side, crump, deformed; harelipped; misshapen, misbegotten; misproportioned, ill proportioned; ill-made; grotesque, monstrous, crooked as a ram's horn; camel backed, hump backed, hunch backed, bunch backed, crook backed; bandy; bandy legged, bow legged; bow kneed, knock kneed; splay footed, club footed; round shouldered; snub nosed; curtailed of one's fair proportions; stumpy; (short); gaunt; (thin); bloated; scalene; simous; taliped, talipedic. |
Interchange | Verb: interchange, exchange, counterchange; bandy, transpose, shuffle, change bands, swap, permute, reciprocate, commute; give and take, return the compliment; play at puss in the corner,Verb: interchange, exchange, counterchange; bandy, transpose, shuffle, change bands, swap, permute, reciprocate, commute; give and take, return the compliment; play at puss in the corner, play at battledore and shuttlecock; retaliate; requite. |
Publication | Verb: publish; make public, make known; (information); speak of, talk of; broach, utter; put forward; circulate, propagate, promulgate; spread, spread abroad; rumor, diffuse, disseminate, evulugate; put forth, give forth, send forth; emit, edit, get out; issue; bring before the public, lay before the public, drag before the public; give out, give to the world; put about, bandy about, hawk about, buzz about, whisper about, bruit about, blaze about; drag into the open day; voice. |
Reasoning, | Verb: reason, argue, discuss, debate, dispute, wrangle- argufy, bandy words, bandy arguments; chop logic; hold an argument, carry on an argument; controvert; (deny); canvass; comment upon, moralize upon; spiritualize; consider; (examine). |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Bandy |
| English words defined with "bandy": Bandied, Bandies, Bandying ♦ Factory leg ♦ Revie ♦ To word it. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "bandy": Matamore. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Bandy" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Swedish (bandy). |
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Screenplays | I did not pass through fire and death to bandy crooked words with a witless worm (The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers; writing credit: Frances Walsh) | |
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| "Bandy" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Bandy" is used about 32 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 32 | 61,292 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "bandy" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Bandy | Last name | 4,000 | 3,116 |
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1. Bandy, VA |
Expressions using "bandy": bandy about ♦ bandy about smb.'s name ♦ bandy legs ♦ bandy some words ♦ bandy words. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "bandy": Bandy-legged. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
bandy | 70 | bandy creek stables | 3 |
moe bandy | 49 | ball bandy indoor | 3 |
bandy campground creek | 11 | bandy h sir thomas | 3 |
bandy mo | 8 | bandy lyrics moe song | 3 |
al bandy | 6 | bandy boy.com | 2 |
moe bandy lyrics | 6 | bandy clown rodeo | 2 |
bandy va | 6 | bandy c g | 2 |
bandy creek | 5 | bandy mike | 2 |
american bandy cowboy great moe sings song | 5 | bandy moe theater | 2 |
way bandy | 4 | bandy papers | 2 |
bandy easum | 4 | bandy carroll hellige | 2 |
moe bandy joe stampley | 4 | bailey bandy | 2 |
bandy valerie | 4 | bandy hammarby | 2 |
bandy betting | 3 | amy bandy | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "bandy"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | shkëmbej (barter, change, commute, exchange, interchange, melt, swap, swop), me hark (arched), kthej (bend, bow, bring back, convert, disgorge, fold in, give back, head off, lift down, replace, restore, return, slew, throw back, transform, transit, turn, turn aside, turn down), i shtrembër (awry, crooked, lopsided, misshapen, skew), i përkulur (bended, crooked, hooked). (various references) | |
Arabic | متقوس الساقين (bandy-legged), نقل (alien, alienate, assign, carriage, carry, carry forward, communicate, convection, convey, conveyance, copy, deliver, freight, go cart, hand on, handling, pass on, pipe, portage, promotion, propagate, relocate, remove, reproduction, route, shift, take away, tote, transfer, transference, transfuse, transit, transmission, transmit, transport, transportation), تقاذف (vex), تبادل (alternate, change, commutation, exchange, interchange, pass, reciprocate, reciprocation, reciprocity, swap, truck), الباندى لعبة, أذاع (blazon, break, broadcast, celebrate, circulate, cry, proclaim, promulgate, propagate, publish, radio, transmit, vend). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | разменяваме си, разменявам (interchange), крив (awry, hooked, squinting, wry), вид хокей (shinny), подмятаме си (toss about), индийски кабриолет. (various references) | |
Chinese | 相'投掷有腿 (Bandy-legged). (various references) | |
Czech | vyprávìt (recount), odpalovat, házet sem a tam. (various references) | |
Farsi | چنبری (Tore), چوگان سرکج , چوگان بازی (Polo), کچ , اینسووانسوپرت کردن , ردوبدل کردن , بحث کردن (Argue, Discuss, Dissert, Treat, Tussle). (various references) | |
Finnish | jääpalloilu. (various references) | |
French | bancal, se renvoyer, arqué, échanger (barter). (various references) | |
German | worte wechseln, wechseln (alternate, change, change over, change round, exchange, move away, pass by, redeem, shift, substitute, swap, switch, to alternate, to bandy, to swap, turn), verbreiten (blaze abroad, blazon, broadcast, broaden, bruit, circulate, circulation, diffuse, disperse, disseminate, distribute, give off, hawk about, let off, peddle, promulgate, propagate, put about, radiate, shed, spread, spread about, spread around, to bandy, to bruit, to diffuse, to disseminate, utter, vulgarize), krummbeinig (bandy-legged, bow legged), krumm (awry, bent, crooked, curved, hooked, hunched, warped, wrily, wry), erzählen (narrate, narrative, recount, relate, tell, telling, to recount, to relate, to tell), dreschen (bash, flail, slam, slog, slosh, thrash, thrashing, thrashings, thresh, threshing, wallop). (various references) | |
Greek | κυρτή, ράβδοσ (bar, baton, crook, drub, ferule, ingot, perch, rod, shaft, staff, stick, truncheon, verge, walking stick, wand), πίπτω (drop, flop, pitch), ανταλλάσω (swap, swop, truck). (various references) | |
Hebrew | עקל (bow legged, kink, knock kneed). (various references) | |
Hungarian | hokiütő (stick). (various references) | |
Indonesian | bangkok. (various references) | |
Italian | storto; curvo, storto (angled, askew, awry, crooked, dippy, skew, skews, wry, wryly), scambiare (barter, change, confuse, exchange, interchange, mistake, mix up, swap, switch, swop), rimandare (adjourn, delay, hold over, postpone, prorogue, put off, refer, send again, send back, shelve), palleggiare, gettare (burgeon, cast, chuck, dash, fling, heave, hurl, spout, throw, throw oneself, toss), curvo (bent, crooked, curved, round), arcuato (arched, bow, curved). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 蟹股 (bandy-legged, bowlegged), 股 (bandy-legged). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | がにまた (bandy-legged, bowlegged). (various references) | |
Manx | ceau focklyn. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | andybay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | veículo indiano, trocar (bartender, barter, change, clabber, commute, exchange, give, interchange, substitute, swap, switch, swop, to cash, to change, truck), jogo semelhante ao hóquei, espalhar boatos, curvado (arched, bent, bow, convex, cranky, curved), atirar (accelerate, aim, bowl, bung, cast, cob, dart, deliver, detrude, drive, fling, give over, gun, heave, launch, loose, pitch, project, pump up, put, shoot, sling, strike, throw), arqueado (arc, arched, bent, cambered, crooked, vaulted), alternar (alternate, alternating, interchange, reciprocate, rotate). (various references) | |
Romanian | trece de la unul la altul, schimba lovituri, rãsfrânt (low, reflected), crosã de hochei (hockey stick), crãcãnat (bandy-legged, bow legged, sprawling), arunca unul altuia, întors (returned). (various references) | |
Russian | перебрасываться. (various references) | |
Scottish | racan (a bandy or crooked stick). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | krivudav (anfractuous, winding, wriggly), kriv (awry, blameworthy, crooked, culpable, curved, guilty, leaning, wry), dobacivati (call out, throw toward). (various references) | |
Spanish | patizambo (bandy-legged, bow legged, bowlegged, knock kneed), pasarse (go, go bad, go off, go over, pass over, stew), juguetear con (fool around, twiddle), intercambiar (exchange, interchange, reciprocate, swap, swop), hockey con pelota, cayado para el hockey con pelota, arqueado (arched, arcuate, cambial). (various references) | |
Swedish | kasta fram och tillbaka. (various references) | |
Turkish | yumruklaşmak (box), sağa sola atmak (kick about), atışmak (altercate, bandy words, Bicker, have a row with, have a tiff, have words with smb., jangle, quarrel, spat, squabble). (various references) | |
Turkmen | зaslyk (bandy-legged), зaяюyk (bandy-legged). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | смугастий (barred, belted, ribbed, streaked, streaky, striped, tabby, zonate, zoned), сперечатися (altercate, argue, contend, contest, dispute, jangle, squabble, thwart, wrangle), хокейна ключка, кривоногий (baker-legged, bandy-legged), кривий (awry, bent, cam, cripple, crook, crooked, gammy, lame, wry), обмінюватися (change, exchange, interchange, niffer, reciprocate), бенді, перекидатися (battledore, fall over, keel over, overset, overturn, somersault, tipple, trip, tumble, upset), передавати з уст в уста. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | có chân vòng kiềng (baker-legged, bandy-legged, bow-legged, knock-kneed). (various references) | |
Welsh | taflu yn o+l a blaen. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "bandy": bandying. (additional references) | |
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"Bandy" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Abdy, abnd, abney, andy, Bady, bahnd, Baindu, bamy, bande, bandh, bandi, bandu, bandys, baney, bangy, banky, Banny, banty, Banwy, bany, bardy, Baudy, Bency, Bendyk, bendys, benty, bindi, blandy, Bondy, Bunday, bundi, bundy, nandy, pandy, zandy. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "bandy" (pronounced ba"ndē) |
| 4 | -a" n d ē | brandy, candy, Dandy, handy, Randy, Sandy, shandy. |
| 3 | -n d ē | attendee, Burgundy, glissandi, Lindy, trendy, windy. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-d-n-y" | |
-1 letter: band. | |
-2 letters: aby, and, any, bad, ban, bay, dab, day, nab, nay. | |
-3 letters: ab, ad, an, ay, ba, by, na, ya. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-d-n-y" | |
+1 letter: benday, brandy. | |
+2 letters: anybody, bendays, blandly, standby. | |
+3 letters: antibody, banditry, bandying, barnyard, bendayed, bendways, boneyard, boundary, damnably, deniably, standbys. | |
+4 letters: abidingly, anybodies, barnyards, bayoneted, beladying, bellyband, bendaying, blarneyed, boneyards, brandying, bystander, definably, endurably, grandbaby, husbandly, husbandry, inaudibly. | |
+5 letters: abundantly, bayonetted, bellybands, biodynamic, bradykinin, bystanders, cybernated, debonairly, dependably, pardonably, prebendary, unabatedly, undeniably. | |
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