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bandy1 /ˈbandi /adjective (bandier, bandiest) (also bandy-legged)1(Of a person’s legs) curved outwards so that the knees are wide apart: she had bent, slightly bandy legs...- Back then, the pale, scrawny 14-year-old with bandy legs and crooked teeth was as far removed from the healthy, sporty look epitomised by Cindy Crawford and Elle MacPherson as you could get.
- His hips and his bandy legs, which seem unusually long from knee to ankle, move with a stiffness which suggests that his joints are about to seize up.
- He's a skinny little hillbilly Jesus with bandy legs and close-set eyes and a clever, foxy face.
1.1(Of a person) having bandy legs: he was short, bandy, and obese...- But come showtime it'll be buzzing and Sylla, as he ambles towards me on the pitchside track, cuts an impressive (if slightly bandy - legged) figure.
- I'm all stiff and bandy legged, like a pensioner.
- With his cane, his downcast eyes, and bandy legged gait, he is the antithesis of Hollywood muscle-bound steroid cases.
Origin Late 17th century: perhaps from obsolete bandy 'curved stick used in hockey'. Rhymes Andy, brandy, candy, dandy, Gandhi, glissandi, handy, jim-dandy, Kandy, Mandy, modus operandi, Nandi, randy, Río Grande, sandhi, sandy, sforzandi, shandy bandy2 /ˈbandi /verb (bandies, bandying, bandied) [with object] (usually be bandied about/around) Pass on or discuss (an idea or rumour) in a casual or uninformed way: £40,000 is the figure that has been bandied about...- Such ideas have been bandied about for decades, even before the first oil boom of the 1970s.
- Internet broadcasting was one of the big ideas bandied around during the dot-com boom in the late 1990s.
- National's Maori member has earned the opportunity to at least be associated with the rumours that are being bandied around this House in relation to the leadership change.
Synonyms spread (about/around), put about, toss about, discuss, rumour; circulate, disseminate, communicate, purvey, diffuse, broadcast, publicize, make public, make known, pass on, propagate, promulgate, announce, give out, repeat literary bruit about/abroad Phrases Origin Late 16th century (in the sense 'pass a ball to and fro'): perhaps from French bander 'take sides at tennis', from bande 'band, crowd' (see band2). bandy3 /ˈbandi /noun [mass noun]1A game similar to field hockey or ice hockey, played with a ball and large curved sticks. 1.1 [count noun] (plural bandies) The curved stick used in the game of bandy. Origin Late 17th century: perhaps from bandy2. |