bandy as a verb: - 1
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as an adjective: - 1
bandy
verb
1 bandy
Toss or strike a ball back and forth.
Roget 148:
interchange,
exchange,
counterchange†;
bandy,
transpose,
shuffle,
change bands,
swap,
permute,
reciprocate,
commute;
give and take,
return the compliment;
play at puss in the corner,
play at battledore and shuttlecock;
retaliate
etc.
718;
requite.
rearrange,
recombine.
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Roget 315:
be agitated
&c.;
shake;
tremble,
tremble like an aspen leaf;
quiver,
quaver,
quake,
shiver,
twitter,
twire†,
writhe,
toss,
shuffle,
tumble,
stagger,
bob,
reel,
sway,
wag,
waggle;
wriggle,
wriggle like an eel;
dance,
stumble,
shamble,
flounder,
totter,
flounce,
flop,
curvet,
prance,
cavort [U.S.];
squirm.
throb,
pulsate,
beat,
palpitate,
go pitapat;
flutter,
flitter,
flicker,
bicker;
bustle.
ferment,
effervesce,
foam;
boil,
boil over;
bubble up;
simmer.
toss about,
jump about;
jump like a parched pea;
shake like an aspen leaf;
shake to its center,
shake to its foundations;
be the sport of the winds and waves;
reel to and fro like a drunken man;
move from post to pillar and from pillar to move from post to pillar and from pillar to post,
drive from post to pillar and from pillar to drive from post to pillar and from pillar to post,
keep between hawk and buzzard.
agitate,
shake,
convulse,
toss,
tumble,
bandy,
wield,
brandish,
flap,
flourish,
whisk,
jerk,
hitch,
jolt;
jog,
joggle,
jostle,
buffet,
hustle,
disturb,
stir,
shake up,
churn,
jounce,
wallop,
whip,
vellicate†.
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2 bandy
3 bandy
adjective
1 bandy
Have legs that curve outward at the knees.
synonyms: bandy-legged, bowed, bowleg, bowlegged.
Roget 243:
distorted
etc.
v.;
out of shape,
irregular,
asymmetric,
unsymmetric†,
awry,
wry,
askew,
crooked;
not true,
not straight;
on one side,
crump†,
deformed;
harelipped;
misshapen,
misbegotten;
misproportioned†,
ill proportioned;
ill-made;
grotesque,
monstrous,
crooked as a ram's horn;
camel backed,
hump backed,
hunch backed,
bunch backed,
crook backed;
bandy;
bandy legged,
bow legged;
bow kneed,
knock kneed;
splay footed,
club footed;
round shouldered;
snub nosed;
curtailed of one's fair proportions;
stumpy
etc.
(short)
201;
gaunt
etc.
(thin)
203;
bloated
etc.
194;
scalene;
simous†;
taliped†,
talipedic†.
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Polish: kabłąkowaty, łukowaty, pałąkowaty, łękowaty
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