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Bandy vs Yandy - What's the difference?

bandy | yandy |

As verbs the difference between bandy and yandy

is that bandy is to give and receive reciprocally; to exchange while yandy is to separate (grain or pieces of mineral) by shaking in a special shallow dish.

As nouns the difference between bandy and yandy

is that bandy is a winter sport played on ice, from which ice hockey developed while yandy is the dish used in this process.

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

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  • 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.
    • ----

    yandy

    English

    Verb

  • (Australia) To separate (grain or pieces of mineral) by shaking in a special shallow dish

    • Noun

    (yandies)
  • (Australia) The dish used in this process