TOP

Definition of bandy verb from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

bandy

verb
 
/ˈbændi/
 
/ˈbændi/
Verb Forms
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/
Idioms Phrasal Verbs
jump to other results
    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
bandy words (with somebody)
  1. (old-fashioned) to argue with somebody or speak rudely to themTopics Opinion and argumentc2
See bandy in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionary
trait
noun
 
 
From the Word list
Oxford 5000
B2
Oxford Learner's Dictionaries Word of the Day