bandy

adjective

/ˈbændi/

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(of the legs) curving, with the knees wide apart
- to be bandy-legged
Oxford Collocations Dictionary
Bandy is used with these nouns:
leg
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Word Originadjective late 17th cent.: perhaps from obsolete bandy ‘curved stick used in hockey v’.

bandy

verb

/ˈbændi/

Verb Forms

present simple I / you / we / they bandy	/ˈbændi/ /ˈbændi/
he / she / it bandies	/ˈbændiz/ /ˈbændiz/
past simple bandied	/ˈbændid/ /ˈbændid/
past participle bandied	/ˈbændid/ /ˈbændid/
-ing form bandying	/ˈbændiɪŋ/ /ˈbændiɪŋ/

Idioms Phrasal Verbs

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Word Originverb late 16th cent. (in the sense‘pass a ball to and fro’): perhaps from French bander ‘take sides at tennis’, from bande ‘band, crowd’, of Germanic origin; related to banner.

Idioms

bandy words (with somebody)

(old-fashioned) to argue with somebody or speak rudely to themTopics Opinion and argumentc2

bandy

noun

/ˈbændi/

[uncountable]

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a game similar to hockey, played on a field or on ice with a ball and large curved sticks

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