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Banded vs Bandied - What's the difference?

banded | bandied |

As verbs the difference between banded and bandied

is that banded is past tense of band while bandied is past tense of bandy.

As an adjective banded

is marked with bands of colour.

banded

English

Adjective

(-)
  • Marked with bands of colour
  • Verb

    (head)
  • (band)
  • bandied

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (bandy)
  • Anagrams

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    bandy

    English

    Etymology 1

    (etyl) . Cognate with banter.

    Verb

    .
  • To give and receive reciprocally; to exchange.
  • to bandy words (with somebody)
  • To use or pass about casually.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1928, author=Lawrence R. Bourne
  • , title=Well Tackled! , chapter=4 citation , passage=Technical terms like ferrite, perlite, graphite, and hardenite were bandied to and fro, and when Paget glibly brought out such a rare exotic as ferro-molybdenum, Benson forgot that he was a master ship-builder, […]}}
    to have one's name bandied about (or around)
  • * I. Watts
  • Let not obvious and known truth be bandied about in a disputation.
  • To throw or strike reciprocally, like balls in sports.
  • * 1663 ,
  • For as whipp'd tops and bandied balls, / The learned hold, are animals; / So horses they affirm to be / Mere engines made by geometry
  • * Cudworth
  • like tennis balls bandied and struck upon us by rackets from without

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) bandy

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Bowlegged, or bending outward at the knees; as in bandy legged.
  • * 1794, , third stanza
  • Then the Parson might preach, and drink, and sing, / And we’d be as happy as birds in the spring; / And modest Dame Lurch, who is always at church, / Would not have bandy children, nor fasting, nor birch.

    Etymology 3

    Possibly from the (etyl) word bando most likely derived from the (etyl) .

    Noun

    (wikipedia bandy) (-)
  • (sports) 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.
  • (Johnson)

    Etymology 4

    (etyl)

    Noun

    (bandies)
  • A carriage or cart used in India, especially one drawn by bullocks.
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