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Banter vs Bandy - What's the difference?

banter | bandy |

As nouns the difference between banter and bandy

is that banter is good-humoured, playful, typically spontaneous conversation while 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.

As verbs the difference between banter and bandy

is that banter is to engage in banter or playful conversation while 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.

banter

English

Noun

(-)
  • Good-humoured, playful, typically spontaneous conversation.
    • It seemed like I'd have to listen to her playful banter for hours.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To engage in banter or playful conversation.
  • To play or do something amusing.
  • To tease (someone) mildly.
  • * Washington Irving
    • Hag-ridden by my own fancy all night, and then bantered on my haggard looks the next day.
  • * Charlotte Brontë
    • Mr. Sweeting was bantered about his stature—he was a little man, a mere boy in height and breadth compared with the athletic Malone
  • To joke about; to ridicule (a trait, habit, etc.).
  • * Chatham
    • If they banter' your regularity, order, and love of study, ' banter in return their neglect of them.
  • To delude or trick; to play a prank upon.
  • * Daniel De Foe
    • We diverted ourselves with bantering several poor scholars with hopes of being at least his lordship's chaplain.
  • (transitive, US, Southern and Western, colloquial) To challenge to a match.

    • Synonyms

    * (tease) kid, wind up

    Derived terms

    * (l)

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    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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