Bandy vs Pandy - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between bandy and pandy

is that bandy is to give and receive reciprocally; to exchange while pandy is to strike on the palm of the hand with a strap as a school punishment.

As nouns the difference between bandy and pandy

is that bandy is a winter sport played on ice, from which ice hockey developed while pandy is a fulling mill.

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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pandy

English

Etymology 1

Noun

(pandies)

A fulling mill.

Noun

(-)

(Ireland, informal) mashed potatoes

Etymology 2

Verb

To strike on the palm of the hand with a strap as a school punishment.

* 1917 , James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Father Dolan came in today and pandied me because I was not writing my theme.

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