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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

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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