bandy

Meanings

Verb

• To give and receive reciprocally; to exchange.
• To use or pass about casually.
• To throw or strike reciprocally, like balls in sports.
• To fight (with or against someone).

Adjective

• Bowlegged, or bending outward at the knees; as in bandy-legged.

Noun

• A winter sport played on ice, from which ice hockey developed.
• A club bent at the lower part for striking a ball at play; a hockey stick.
• A carriage or cart used in India, especially one drawn by bullocks.

Origin

• From French bander, with -y, -ie added due to influence from Spanish and Portuguese bandear and or Old Occitan bandir, from the same root as English band. Compare also with banter.
• From Scots bandy.
• Probably from the verb bandy in the sense "toss/bat back and forth", or possibly from the Welsh word bando, most likely derived from the Proto-Germanic *bandją ("a curved stick").
• From Telugu.