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Bandiest vs Bangiest - What's the difference?

bandiest | bangiest |

As a verb bandiest

is (archaic) (bandy).

As an adjective bangiest is

(bangy).

bandiest

English

Verb

(head)
  • (archaic) (bandy)

    • 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.
    • ----

    bangiest

    English

    Adjective

    (head)
  • (bangy)

    • Anagrams

    * *

    bangy

    English

    Etymology 1

    Alternative forms

    * banghy * bhangy

    Noun

    (bangies)
  • (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= 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)
  • 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 citation
    • , 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. }}