Bandy vs Mandy - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between bandy and mandy

is that bandy is (sports) a winter sport played on ice, from which ice hockey developed or bandy can be a carriage or cart used in india, especially one drawn by bullocks while mandy is (uk|slang|uncountable) the drug mdma.

As a verb bandy

is to give and receive reciprocally; to exchange.

As an adjective bandy

is bowlegged, or bending outward at the knees; as in bandy legged.

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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mandy

English

Proper noun

(en-proper noun) (plural Mandys )

. Popular as a formal given name in the U.K. in the 1960s and 1970s.

* 1928 Joyce Lankester Brisley: Milly-Molly-Mandy Stories . Chapter 1:

But Mother and Father and Grandpa and Grandma and Uncle and Aunty couldn't very well call out "Millicent Margaret Amanda" every time they wanted her, so they shortened it to "Milly-Molly-Mandy " which is quite easy to say.

* 1994 P.D.James: Original Sin ISBN 0679438890 page 10:

Without looking up, she asked: "Is your name Mandy or Amanda Price?"

"Mandy', Miss Etienne." In other circumstances ' Mandy would have pointed out that if her name were Amanda the CV would have said so.