/bandy-meaning-etymology
-) Verb.
-) Pronunciation and accent: bændɪ.
-) Third-person singular simple present: she/he bandies.
-) Preterite tense, preterite participle: bandied.
-) Present participle: bandying.
-) Etymology: of uncertain origin. Maybe from Middle French bander “to be tight, to bandy at tennis”, which is derived from bande “strip”.
-) It is dated from the end of 1500.
-) Transitively: -) 1. To throw, strike or beat (a ball) to and fro, or from one player to another, as in the game of bandy and tennis; this is, to throw or strike it alternately; to throw, or impel by hitting (a ball) to and fro between players.
-) Translation: pelotear con o rebatir (una pelota), in Spanish; ribattere (una palla), in Italian; renvoyer (une balle), in French.
When a nimble runner gets the ball in his cross, he sets off towards the goal with the utmost speed, and is followed by the rest, who endeavor to jostle him and shake it out; but, if hard pressed, he discharges it with a jerk, to be forwarded by his own party, or bandied back by their opponents…
J. Franklin… Narrative… 1824
… a certain game of ball had been known, the playing of which consists in this –that two or more persons […] with bats, battledores, or racquets, bandied a ball from one to the other.
American lawn tennis, vol. 1… 1931
… the player had to bandy the ball to and fro…
H. Gillmeister… Tennis… 1939
-) Absolutely: to bandy a ball at tennis.
-) 2. (Less properly) to toss (anything, someone) to and fro, or from one person to another, as if it were a ball.
Some […] were bandied to and fro by the jerks and rolls of the ship, without exerting any efforts to help themselves.
R. Kerr… Voyages and Travels… 1816
… you don't know what it is to get back home, after having been bandied from one hotel to another hotel, and from one lodging-house to another lodging-house.
W. Black… Macleod of Dare… 1878
-) With the adverb “about”, to strengthen the connotation of toss:
Tom Paine was so wicked that he could not be buried; his bones were thrown into a box which was bandied about the world till it came to a button-manufacturer; and now Paine is travelling round the world in the form of buttons!
T. Paine… The Writings… 1776
Do you suppose it is none to have me bandied about from bidder to bidder, and offered for sale to a gentleman who will not buy me?
W. Thackeray… The Newcomes 1854
The scrip was bandied about, no one caring for it…
A. Adams… Reed… 1907
-) 3. Metaphor: to cause (a theme, name, subject, etc.) to be mentioned, or (something) to be named repeatedly and alternately, from one person to another, as if it were a ball.
… conjectures as to where she would live, and how she would live, and, above all, whom she would marry, were bandied about from one to the other.
The New Monthly Magazine 1814-1884
… the name of this lovely and modest girl was bandied about from one to another.
H. Jones… The gipsy mother… 1833
The awkwardness of the Delaware in his new attire caused his friend to smile more than once that day; but he carefully abstained from the use of any of those jokes which would have been bandied among white men on such an occasion…
J. Cooper… The Deerslayer… 1841
His name was bandied from mouth to mouth, and a thousand efforts were made to find out who and what he was.
A. Doyle… The Doings… 1892
-) 3. Metaphor: to do, commit, perform (something) in reciprocity with some one else.
-) Synonyms: reciprocate, exchange.
I have not come to bandy pleasant speeches, or hollow professions.
Dickens… Barnaby Rudge… 1841
The trembling sentinel now looked insolently in his face; the cowering legionary, with whom "to hear was to obey," now mused or even bandied words upon his orders.
T. de Quincey… The Caesars… 1851
-) With the preposition “with” + a noun or a pronoun designative of the reciprocator:
… I came not hither to bandy reproaches with you.
Scott… Ivanhoe… 1819
-) 4. Obsolete meaning: to band; to cause (some one) to league.
-) Intransitive: -) 1. (Of a ball bandied) to bound; to be bandied; to bound like a tennis ball.
-) 2. Archaic meaning: to band; to league; to ally oneself with some one else.
-) Synonyms: to confederate, alliance.
All the nobility of England bandied into parties, and adhered either to the one duke or the other.
D. Hume… The History of England… 1754
While they staid at Barbadoes it was plainly discovered that not only the inhabitants there were against the general design, but that the seamen bandied against the land-men.
R. Venables… The experienced angler… 1825
-) 3. Obsolete meaning: to antagonize; to be an oppose.
-) Synonyms: contend, strive.
… he was neither bandied against, or censured in the more private and seditious cabals, nor was his master publicly addressed to for his removal.
E. Lodge… Portraits… 1824
-) Words derived from rhe verb “bandy”: rebandy, bandy (noun), bandying, maybe bandy (adj.)