Crossword clues for bandying
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bandy \Ban"dy\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Bandied (b[a^]n"d[-e]d); p. pr. & vb. n. Bandying.]
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To beat to and fro, as a ball in playing at bandy.
Like tennis balls bandied and struck upon us . . . by rackets from without.
--Cudworth. To give and receive reciprocally; to exchange. ``To bandy hasty words.''
--Shak.-
To toss about, as from person to person; to circulate freely in a light manner; -- of ideas, facts, rumors, etc.
Let not obvious and known truth be bandied about in a disputation.
--I. Watts.
Wiktionary
n. The act of one who bandies. vb. (present participle of bandy English)
Usage examples of "bandying".
That was definitely the word I'd heard the women bandying about: "Tachi.
God knows that enough people have been bandying about the name of the place.
Less than an hour ago he had seen him an a ball-room dressed in the latest fashion, with priceless lace at throat and wrists, bandying inanities with brainless women, the butt and darling of society, the maker of merriment and laughter.
Half a dozen troopers were gathered round him, all laughing and bandying jokes.
Or is all this so much bandying with the formal relations between words and terms without any relation to my physical situation?