Definitions
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 […]”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Toss around, as ideas”5 letters
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