bandy
verb/ˈbændi/
/ˈbændi/
Verb Forms
Idioms Phrasal Verbs| present simple I / you / we / they bandy | /ˈbændi/ /ˈbændi/ |
| he / she / it bandies | /ˈbændiz/ /ˈbændiz/ |
| past simple bandied | /ˈbændid/ /ˈbændid/ |
| past participle bandied | /ˈbændid/ /ˈbændid/ |
| -ing form bandying | /ˈbændiɪŋ/ /ˈbændiɪŋ/ |
Word Originverb late 16th cent. (in the sense‘pass a ball to and fro’): perhaps from French bander ‘take sides at tennis’, from bande ‘band, crowd’, of Germanic origin; related to banner.
Idioms
See bandy in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionarybandy words (with somebody)
- (old-fashioned) to argue with somebody or speak rudely to themTopics Opinion and argumentc2
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