Bandiest vs Bangiest - What's the difference?
bandiest | bangiest |
(archaic) (bandy)
To give and receive reciprocally; to exchange.
To use or pass about casually.
* {{quote-book, year=1928, author=Lawrence R. Bourne
, title=Well Tackled!
, chapter=4 * I. Watts
To throw or strike reciprocally, like balls in sports.
* 1663 ,
* Cudworth
Bowlegged, or bending outward at the knees; as in bandy legged.
* 1794, , third stanza
(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.
A carriage or cart used in India, especially one drawn by bullocks.
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(bangy)
(India) A type of yoke carried on the shoulders, as a means for people to carry a load.
* {{quote-book
, year=1837
, author=Asiatic Society of Bengal
, title=Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal
, chapter=
Characterized by a lot of banging sounds; clangy.
* {{quote-news, year=2009, date=March 3, author=The New York Times, title=Music in Review, work=New York Times
, passage=But her performance of Beethoven’s Sonata No. 30 in E (whose finale includes Baroque references, like a fugato) at times sounded bangy , although there were lovely moments in the Andante. }}
As a verb bandiest
is (archaic) (bandy).As an adjective bangiest is
(bangy).bandiest
English
Verb
(head)bandy
English
Etymology 1
(etyl) . Cognate with banter.Verb
.- to bandy words (with somebody)
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)
- Let not obvious and known truth be bandied about in a disputation.
- For as whipp'd tops and bandied balls, / The learned hold, are animals; / So horses they affirm to be / Mere engines made by geometry
- like tennis balls bandied and struck upon us by rackets from without
Etymology 2
From (etyl) bandyAdjective
(-)- 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) (-)- (Johnson)
Etymology 4
(etyl)Noun
(bandies)bangiest
English
Adjective
(head)Anagrams
* *bangy
English
Etymology 1
Alternative forms
* banghy * bhangyNoun
(bangies)citation, isbn= , page=267 , passage=The men, to the number of 800, march in single file, and each man occupies a space of six feet, being obliged to carry a bangy' containing his provisions, cooking pots, &c. besides his musket, which is tied to the ' bangy stick.}}
Etymology 2
Adjective
(er)citation