Read full poem →with my barons. Comp. also
the expression *to bandy
words'. In its original sense,
Dictionary Entry
To give and receive reciprocally; to exchange.
In a Sentence
“to bandy words (with somebody)”
Origin
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Common Phrases
legs bandywords bandy. bandycreek bandyet bandybandy littlebandy moe
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Antonyms
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Poetry examples for “bandy”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →I shake my licad, and all the thoughts and ends
Which my fierce youth did bandy, fall and flow
Like leaves about mc, or, like summer friends,
Read full poem →I thought them joys eternal when I used to shout and play
On its bank at "clink and bandy," "chock" and "taw" and "ducking stone,"
Where silence sitteth now on the wild heath as her own
Read full poem →And modest Dame Lurch, who is always at church,
Would not have bandy children, nor fasting, nor birch.