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Word entry · 5 letters

bandy

Best crossword clue

"Toss around, as ideas"

5 letters · collected on this word page

5 lettersPronunciation /ˈbændi/Part of speech verb, adjectiveSorted abdnyStarts with BEnds with Y1 cluesCommon crossword word
1B2A3N4D5Y

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Definitions

  1. To discuss, exchange, or pass words or ideas back and forth.

Word origin

From French bander (“to bandy at tennis”), with -y, -ie added due to influence from Spanish and Portuguese bandear and/or Old Occitan bandir (“to throw”), from the same root as English band. Compare also with banter.

Used in a sentence

  • to bandy words (with somebody)
  • to have one's name bandied about (or around)
  • Let not obvious and known Truths, or some of the most plain and certain Propositions be bandy’d about in a Disputation, for a meer Trial of Skill […]

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