Definitions for bandies

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bandies ban·dy

Spelling: [ban-dee]

IPA: /ˈbæn di/

Bandies is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 286 anagrams from letters in bandies (abdeins).

Definitions for bandies

noun

1. an early form of tennis.
2. Chiefly British. (formerly) hockey or shinny.
3. Obsolete. a hockey or shinny stick.

adjective

1. (of legs) having a bend or crook outward; bowed:

verb (used with object)

1. to pass from one to another or back and forth; give and take; trade; exchange:
2. to throw or strike to and fro or from side to side, as a ball in tennis.
3. to circulate freely:

Origin of bandies

1570-80; perhaps Spanish bandear to conduct, bandy, orig. help, serve as member of a band of men. See band¹

Examples for bandies

A game played by two persons, with bandies or sticks hooked at the end, and a bit of wood called a nacket.

They had a net to catch penguins, a club like to our bandies, and wooden darts.

It should make an end of the treacly farce which bandies between hopelessly parted colleagues the title 'right hon. friend.'

A dialogue abounding in the passages I have already quoted—a dialogue which bandies 'O you screech-owl!'

Our baggage and bandies were also carried over in them, but the cattle of every kind were obliged to swim.