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bandy1(also bandy-legged) adjectivebandiest, bandier ˈbandiˈbændi 1(of a person's legs) curved outwards so that the knees are wide apart. （人腿）向外弯的 she had bent, slightly bandy legs Example sentencesExamples - In other words, he was a wee slip of a thing, a flyweight who sometimes had the additional curse of bandy legs caused by childhood rickets, a dreadful disease usually caused by a lack of vitamin D.
- She has been running from the Ohio bigwigs implicated in the scandal as fast as her bandy little legs will carry her.
- It might be their posture, a cocksure expression, bandy legs and butter-hued dentition, or nothing at all.
- He's a skinny little hillbilly Jesus with bandy legs and close-set eyes and a clever, foxy face.
- Back then, the pale, scrawny 14-year-old with bandy legs and crooked teeth was as far removed from the healthy, sporty look epitomised by Cindy Crawford and Elle MacPherson as you could get.
- His hips and his bandy legs, which seem unusually long from knee to ankle, move with a stiffness which suggests that his joints are about to seize up.
- The shark is circling Farnsworth, you of the bandy legs and discombobulated dance maneuverings.
- With his peroxide head bowed, eyes closed, the old man feels his way forward, bandy legs shuffling, shoulders stooped, senses bat sharp, as keen as razor wire.
- Little Evie, two generations distant, is doing fine, pushing herself up on back legs still bandy, only to have them shoot out behind her.
- She frightened the hell out of the entire male staff with her rampaging sexual prowess and bandy legs.
- The Instructor was tanned, bored, had bandy legs, roamed around saying nothing and then wrote his name in big letters on the board.
- She thinks her own legs are small, bandy, nearly misshapen.
- A few mums and grannies in leather skirts go up to the stage to try dancing around the pole - bending bandy legs, flicking ankles and pouting.
- The things didn't look dangerous with their soft, bandy legs and large fingers.
- His bandy legs are pulled up under the distended moon of his swollen stomach.
- Takeshi is small, thick set, with bandy legs and a disconcerting twitch to his cheek.
- His legs, bandy and stubby, propel him sheathed in black overalls.
- He yanked his robe up to his waist and raced on naked bandy legs to the stone rostrum at the east of the forum.
Synonyms bowed, curved, bent, crooked, misshapen, malformed - 1.1 (of a person) having bandy legs.
he was short, bandy, and obese Example sentencesExamples - But come showtime it'll be buzzing and Sylla, as he ambles towards me on the pitchside track, cuts an impressive (if slightly bandy - legged) figure.
- With his cane, his downcast eyes, and bandy legged gait, he is the antithesis of Hollywood muscle-bound steroid cases.
- I'm all stiff and bandy legged, like a pensioner.
Synonyms bowed, curved, bent, crooked, misshapen, malformed
OriginLate 17th century: perhaps from obsolete bandy 'curved stick used in hockey'. RhymesAndy, brandy, candy, dandy, Gandhi, glissandi, handy, jim-dandy, Kandy, Mandy, modus operandi, Nandi, randy, Río Grande, sandhi, sandy, sforzandi, shandy verbbandying, bandied, bandies ˈbandiˈbændi [with object]usually be bandied about/aroundPass on or discuss (an idea or rumour) in a casual or uninformed way. 随便散布（或讨论）（看法，谣言） £40,000 is the figure that has been bandied about 传说的数目是四万英镑。 Example sentencesExamples - Over the past couple of weeks many expert ideas have been bandied around connected with Sri Lanka's dismal showing in South Africa.
- According to police, the idea has been bandied around since Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir John Stevens saw the scheme in operation in Holland.
- Such ideas have been bandied about for decades, even before the first oil boom of the 1970s.
- In England the same debates are being had, reforms are focusing on the same areas and the catchphrases of ‘freedom’ and ‘choice’ are also being bandied around.
- The word ‘great’ gets bandied around a lot, but it sure applies to CBS's ‘60 Minutes.’
- She was very secretive in the sense that she didn't want her name bandied around the village.
- Internet broadcasting was one of the big ideas bandied around during the dot-com boom in the late 1990s.
- There's been a few names bandied around and I hope there can be a few more signings before the end of the transfer window.
- They are making a mockery of RTE by getting free publicity by way of having their name bandied about on a current affairs program.
- The idea of a fifth full-sized holiday village has been bandied about for some time.
- Ways to reform the annuity system have also been bandied about, such as allowing people to pass on some their pension pot to their descendants.
- The idea was bandied around and apparently dropped.
- Valuations of around $80 million are being bandied around which, if true, would suggest Morgan should perhaps be on the Crikey Revised Wealth list.
- But they have received little recognition or reward: their intellectual property has been stolen and bandied around the world, often appearing, uncredited, in the national media.
- The compensation figures being bandied around, in our view, are far too high.
- National's Maori member has earned the opportunity to at least be associated with the rumours that are being bandied around this House in relation to the leadership change.
- One idea which has been bandied around recently is some kind of election before anointing Prince Charles.
- Electro's been very much bandied around in magazines and newspapers and stuff lately.
- Incivilities were bandied about and spread to the government.
- The idea of positive sentence management has been bandied about for many years.
Synonyms spread (about/around), put about, toss about, discuss, rumour circulate, disseminate, communicate, purvey, diffuse, broadcast, publicize, make public, make known, pass on, propagate, promulgate, announce, give out, repeat literary bruit about/abroad
PhrasesArgue pointlessly or rudely. 无理取闹，斗嘴 I'm not going to bandy words with you 我可不准备跟你斗嘴。 Example sentencesExamples - Do not bandy words in your insolence with the Mouth of Sauron!
- Tired of bandying words with this charlatan, I allow my fury to seep into my eyes.
- Meantime, while academicians bandied words, many applied politicians saw Cannan's Law clearly, and used it to further their ends.
- Unable to bandy words any longer, he took the phone away from his ear and hit the ‘end’ button, then placed the phone carefully back in its cradle on the desk.
- Afraid it was Dan, back to bandy words once more, she whirled suddenly.
Synonyms exchange, swap, trade, interchange, barter, reciprocate, pass back and forth, give and take
OriginLate 16th century (in the sense 'pass a ball to and fro'): perhaps from French bander 'take sides at tennis', from bande 'band, crowd' (see band2). nounPlural bandies ˈbandiˈbændi mass noun1A game similar to field hockey or ice hockey, played with a ball and large curved sticks. 曲棍球；冰球 - 1.1count noun The curved stick used in the game of bandy.
曲棍球球棍，曲棍
OriginLate 17th century: perhaps from bandy2. adjectiveˈbændiˈbandē 1(of a person's legs) curved so as to be wide apart at the knees. （人腿）向外弯的 she had bent, slightly bandy legs Example sentencesExamples - His hips and his bandy legs, which seem unusually long from knee to ankle, move with a stiffness which suggests that his joints are about to seize up.
- His bandy legs are pulled up under the distended moon of his swollen stomach.
- A few mums and grannies in leather skirts go up to the stage to try dancing around the pole - bending bandy legs, flicking ankles and pouting.
- She thinks her own legs are small, bandy, nearly misshapen.
- She frightened the hell out of the entire male staff with her rampaging sexual prowess and bandy legs.
- His legs, bandy and stubby, propel him sheathed in black overalls.
- The things didn't look dangerous with their soft, bandy legs and large fingers.
- She has been running from the Ohio bigwigs implicated in the scandal as fast as her bandy little legs will carry her.
- He yanked his robe up to his waist and raced on naked bandy legs to the stone rostrum at the east of the forum.
- It might be their posture, a cocksure expression, bandy legs and butter-hued dentition, or nothing at all.
- He's a skinny little hillbilly Jesus with bandy legs and close-set eyes and a clever, foxy face.
- In other words, he was a wee slip of a thing, a flyweight who sometimes had the additional curse of bandy legs caused by childhood rickets, a dreadful disease usually caused by a lack of vitamin D.
- Back then, the pale, scrawny 14-year-old with bandy legs and crooked teeth was as far removed from the healthy, sporty look epitomised by Cindy Crawford and Elle MacPherson as you could get.
- With his peroxide head bowed, eyes closed, the old man feels his way forward, bandy legs shuffling, shoulders stooped, senses bat sharp, as keen as razor wire.
- Takeshi is small, thick set, with bandy legs and a disconcerting twitch to his cheek.
- Little Evie, two generations distant, is doing fine, pushing herself up on back legs still bandy, only to have them shoot out behind her.
- The Instructor was tanned, bored, had bandy legs, roamed around saying nothing and then wrote his name in big letters on the board.
- The shark is circling Farnsworth, you of the bandy legs and discombobulated dance maneuverings.
Synonyms bowed, curved, bent, crooked, misshapen, malformed - 1.1often bandy-legged (of a person) having legs that are curved so as to be wide apart at the knees; bowlegged.
he was short, bandy, and obese Example sentencesExamples - But come showtime it'll be buzzing and Sylla, as he ambles towards me on the pitchside track, cuts an impressive (if slightly bandy - legged) figure.
- I'm all stiff and bandy legged, like a pensioner.
- With his cane, his downcast eyes, and bandy legged gait, he is the antithesis of Hollywood muscle-bound steroid cases.
Synonyms bowed, curved, bent, crooked, misshapen, malformed
OriginLate 17th century: perhaps from obsolete bandy ‘curved stick used in hockey’. verbˈbandēˈbændi [with object]usually be bandied about/aroundPass on or discuss (an idea or rumor) in a casual or uninformed way. 随便散布（或讨论）（看法，谣言） $40,000 is the figure that has been bandied about 传说的数目是四万英镑。 Example sentencesExamples - Internet broadcasting was one of the big ideas bandied around during the dot-com boom in the late 1990s.
- Valuations of around $80 million are being bandied around which, if true, would suggest Morgan should perhaps be on the Crikey Revised Wealth list.
- They are making a mockery of RTE by getting free publicity by way of having their name bandied about on a current affairs program.
- In England the same debates are being had, reforms are focusing on the same areas and the catchphrases of ‘freedom’ and ‘choice’ are also being bandied around.
- According to police, the idea has been bandied around since Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir John Stevens saw the scheme in operation in Holland.
- The idea of positive sentence management has been bandied about for many years.
- The idea of a fifth full-sized holiday village has been bandied about for some time.
- Such ideas have been bandied about for decades, even before the first oil boom of the 1970s.
- The compensation figures being bandied around, in our view, are far too high.
- Incivilities were bandied about and spread to the government.
- There's been a few names bandied around and I hope there can be a few more signings before the end of the transfer window.
- But they have received little recognition or reward: their intellectual property has been stolen and bandied around the world, often appearing, uncredited, in the national media.
- She was very secretive in the sense that she didn't want her name bandied around the village.
- Ways to reform the annuity system have also been bandied about, such as allowing people to pass on some their pension pot to their descendants.
- Electro's been very much bandied around in magazines and newspapers and stuff lately.
- The idea was bandied around and apparently dropped.
- The word ‘great’ gets bandied around a lot, but it sure applies to CBS's ‘60 Minutes.’
- One idea which has been bandied around recently is some kind of election before anointing Prince Charles.
- Over the past couple of weeks many expert ideas have been bandied around connected with Sri Lanka's dismal showing in South Africa.
- National's Maori member has earned the opportunity to at least be associated with the rumours that are being bandied around this House in relation to the leadership change.
Synonyms spread, spread about, spread around, put about, toss about, discuss, rumour
PhrasesArgue pointlessly or rudely. 无理取闹，斗嘴 don't bandy words with me, Sir! Example sentencesExamples - Afraid it was Dan, back to bandy words once more, she whirled suddenly.
- Meantime, while academicians bandied words, many applied politicians saw Cannan's Law clearly, and used it to further their ends.
- Unable to bandy words any longer, he took the phone away from his ear and hit the ‘end’ button, then placed the phone carefully back in its cradle on the desk.
- Do not bandy words in your insolence with the Mouth of Sauron!
- Tired of bandying words with this charlatan, I allow my fury to seep into my eyes.
Synonyms exchange, swap, trade, interchange, barter, reciprocate, pass back and forth, give and take
OriginLate 16th century (in the sense ‘pass a ball to and fro’): perhaps from French bander ‘take sides at tennis’, from bande ‘band, crowd’ (see band). nounˈbændiˈbandē 1A game similar to field hockey or ice hockey, played with a ball and large curved sticks. 曲棍球；冰球 - 1.1 The curved stick used in the game of bandy.
曲棍球球棍，曲棍
OriginLate 17th century: perhaps from bandy. |