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Bandy

Definition: Bandy

Bandy

Adjective

1. Have legs that curve outward at the knees.

Verb

1. 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)


Specialty Definition: Bandy

DomainDefinition

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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Specialty Definition: Bandy

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Bandy is a winter sport, where a ball is hit with a stick. It is the original sport that in some places evolved into ice hockey and has rules that are similar to soccer. It is now played in a few nations, including Sweden, Finland, Norway and Russia.

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

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Bandy."

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Synonyms: Bandy

Synonyms: bandy-legged (adj), bowed (adj), bowleg (adj), bowlegged (adj), kick around (v). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Bandy

ContextSynonyms 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.

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Crosswords: Bandy

English words defined with "bandy": Bandied, Bandies, BandyingFactory legRevieTo 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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Modern Usage: Bandy

DomainUsage

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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Commercial Usage: Bandy

DomainTitle

Books

  • Hitler Versus Me: The Return of Bartholomew Bandy (reference)

  • It's Me Again: The Journals of Bartholomew Bandy (reference)

  • Me Bandy You Cissie: The Journals of Bartholomew Bandy (reference)

  • Me So Far (The Bandy Papers, Vol 7) (reference)

  • Me Too: The Brandy Papers (The Journals of Bartholomew Bandy, Volume 5) (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Music

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Usage Frequency: Bandy

"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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)100%3261,292

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Name Usage Frequency: Bandy

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.
NameUsage/GenderUsage per 100
million Persons
Rank in USA
BandyLast name4,0003,116
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Cities: Bandy


1. Bandy, VA
Zip Code(s): 24602
Country: USA

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Expressions: Bandy

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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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Bandy

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
ExpressionFrequency
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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Modern Translation: Bandy

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), (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.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Bandy

Derivations

Words beginning with "bandy": bandying. (additional references)


Misspellings

"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).

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Rhyming with "Bandy"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "bandy" (pronounced ba"ndē)
4-a" n d ēbrandy, candy, Dandy, handy, Randy, Sandy, shandy.
3-n d ēattendee, Burgundy, glissandi, Lindy, trendy, windy.

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Anagrams: Bandy

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.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Usage Frequency
7. Names: Frequency
8. Cities
9. Expressions
10. Expressions: Internet
11. Translations: Modern
12. Derivations
13. Rhymes
14. Anagrams
15. Bibliography


  

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