(n.) A carriage or cart used in India, esp. one drawn by bullocks.
(n.) A club bent at the lower part for striking a ball at play; a hockey stick.
(n.) The game played with such a club; hockey; shinney; bandy ball.
(v. t.) To beat to and fro, as a ball in playing at bandy.
(v. t.) To give and receive reciprocally; to exchange.
(v. t.) To toss about, as from man to man; to agitate.
(v. i.) To content, as at some game in which each strives to drive the ball his own way.
(a.) Bent; crooked; curved laterally, esp. with the convex side outward; as, a bandy leg.
Example Sentences:
(1) Words like "trivialisation" and "stunt" were bandied about, especially after the Channel 4 documentary that dwelt as much on the players as the results.
(2) Ministers bandied about their theories – a force too focused on health and safety and human rights; perhaps some sympathy with the protestors or just plain incompetence.
(3) They have buckets and trowels as they're going clamming, and Popeye leaves first, navigating the sand with a gratifyingly bandy gait.
(4) People have been offered Cuba, and no doubt governorships of Bermuda have been bandied about.
(5) In the wake of manager Mauricio Pochettino’s departure to Tottenham, England internationals Luke Shaw, Rickie Lambert and Adam Lallana were among those to leave for pastures new, leading to the term ‘meltdown’ being bandied around.
(6) "Bandying around accusations as a British foreign secretary about a mainstream party in Europe I think is quite wrong and David Miliband needs to recognise that, as I'm sure he now will."
(7) Wiley's own genre, "Eskibeat", and terms such as "Sublow" and "8 Bar", were still being bandied about, while the instrumentals were only available in a few specialist shops.
(8) While, today, none of us would take seriously politicians who bandy such weasel words about, these were quite the thing in the 60s.
(9) First, despite David Cameron's claim that the proposed increase is a " job killer ", the figures bandied around are absurd.
(10) A Nato diplomat said: “There is very real concern about the way in which Russia publicly bandies around nuclear stuff.
(11) This study demonstrates that FQ does not equal FP as several authors have reported (Bandi, 1972; Barry, 1979; Ficat and Hungerford, 1977; Hungerford and Barry, 1979; Reilly and Martens, 1972; Smidt, 1973).
(12) The notion that public figures have any right to privacy appears to have been lost in the furore surrounding the story, stolen correspondence being bandied around in attempts to influence the outcome of one of the nastiest, most vitriolic US presidential campaigns in history.
(13) Elections are about money; the number bandied nervously about in the room was that Hillary could raise a war chest of as much as $2.5bn before the Republicans have even picked a candidate.
(14) Having been bandied around various digital channels, the show has no home on our screens at present, but with the third season being released on DVD, there is now the chance to immerse yourself in a drama that is as idiosyncratic, and as compelling, as Tony Montana taking over a boarding school.
(15) Parton in the flesh is so exactly how one imagines her to be that as she sits opposite me, bandying about such Dolly-esque phrases as "You just need some good ol' horse sense!
(16) I think that maybe my name is bandied about because I'm known to be bald.
(17) The phrase "human shield" has been much bandied about, but it is not quite accurate.
(18) We’re not there yet, but if we want to maintain the ability to think clearly and independently about migration, there’s good reason to be wary of some of the vocabulary now being bandied about.
(19) The high content of cholesterol sulfate in adrenal cortex (Drayer, N.M., Roberts, K.D., Bandi, L., and Lieberman, S. (1964) J. Biol.
(20) In the total subject sample the individual values for VO2max had the highest correlation (p less than 0.01) with the individual playing ability in bandy.
Bawdy
Definition:
(a.) Dirty; foul; -- said of clothes.
(a.) Obscene; filthy; unchaste.
Example Sentences:
(1) Cleeve Hill was once the site of a 'bawdy' racecourse, before it was moved down the hill into genteel Cheltenham.
(2) One is the British release on Wednesday of a bawdy American comedy about a foul-mouthed soft toy called Ted and the other is a BBC Prom celebrating the swingin' music of the golden era of Hollywood and Broadway songwriting.
(3) Yet there is Samantha, bawdy as the Wife of Bath, always cheerfully horny and materialistic, utterly without Calvinic redeeming qualities, living at last with her devoted younger boy toy in LA in the Sex and the City movie – finally leaving him because she is just not cut out to mix her driving, unmediated sexual energy with commitment.
(4) It gets even worse when you are proud of the fact that you went to Pat Robertson’s God Hates Facts pay-and-print diploma mill Regents University, where you wrote , “Every level of government should statutorially and procedurally prefer married couples over cohabitators, homosexuals, and fornicators.” So it gets fantastically worse when you describe your marriage as on “hold” and live during the trial with your parish priest, Rev Wayne Ball of St. Patrick’s Catholic Church, whose assignations Talking Points Memo delicately summarizes as thus : Ball, then pastor of Holy Trinity Catholic Church in Norfolk, pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge of frequenting a bawdy place.
(5) Like: ‘I don’t have bipolar disorder but I am a little borderline’, and then playing Borderline.” She said she would “rather die than work in Vegas” and in another bawdy joke asked the crowd to guess the punchline to her joke: “What’s the difference between a car tyre and 365 used condoms?”, wiping a $100 note between her legs and offering it as a prize.
(6) And the best of Phife’s verses always tended to be based in rowdy, bawdy expression.
(7) McCann approves of a bawdy drinking song recorded by the Hold Steady , and there are grubby cameos from Gary Lightbody of Snow Patrol and Will Champion of Coldplay.
(8) But if the nation fell in love with Tennant playing the Doctor from 2005 to 2010, then arguably his biggest break came a year before when, as a virtual unknown, he landed the lead role in BBC3's bawdy mini series, Casanova, created by Russell T Davies – who had just overseen the return of Doctor Who to BBC1, with Christopher Eccleston in the starring role.
(9) Before the revolution, it was fashionable among the upper classes to assemble so-called knigi dlya dam ( Ladies’ Books) – a kind of bawdy scrapbook.
(10) Many of his later films were musicals, including a bawdy adaptation of the notorious sea shanty "Twas on the Good Ship Venus", which he swore he would document "in its most complete version!"
(11) Burns is, according to the poet Edwin Muir, "to the respectable, a decent man; to the Rabelaisian, bawdy; to the sentimentalist, sentimental; to the socialist, a revolutionary; to the nationalist, a patriot; to the religious, pious …" So no doubt, this January at the start of referendum year , even diehard unionists will be searching around for words of his that seem to support their position and, where they can extrapolate them, sprinkling them around with abandon to salt their haggis, neeps and tatties at Burns suppers the length and breadth of the land.
(12) With their glittering saris, bright makeup and a reputation for bawdy song and dance, hijras, India's transgender minority, are hard to miss.
(13) But her grandmother, who raised her, was a fine, sometimes bawdy, storyteller.
(14) The kind of bawdy, sexually explicit antics that began with Porky's and resurfaced in the teenage and twentysomething-targeted "grossout" movies of the late 90s were extending their hold in films for those a little older.
(15) But on Thursday, the news programme, first aired in 1967, suffered a different sort of blow – beaten in the ratings by bawdy ITV2 panel show, Celebrity Juice, hosted by Keith Lemon , the outspoken, some would say insufferable, creation of former Bo' Selecta Leigh Francis.
(16) That extreme rarity, a natural rather than thought-out comedian, Joan Sims, who has died aged 71, exuberantly enhanced the bawdiness of one of the British movie industry's biggest successes, the Carry On films.
(17) Vic Gatrell's brilliant City of Laughter points to the bawdiness of 18th-century humour in London even – or especially – among the elite (plenty of "low manners in high places" as he nicely puts it).
(18) Absalom began life at what you might call the Nuts-magazine end of the 1960s folk revival, knocking out bawdy rugby songs on a debut album even his own website advises you not to listen to; he currently works as a children's entertainer called Professor Absalom who, Ravenscroft notes, "looks a bit like Santa Claus as drawn by Raymond Briggs ".
(19) Thomas stretches out his sentences into great, rolling, relentless waves, or crushes words together into compound coinages as the voices whisper and declaim: the play is bawdy, tragic, lyrical, sly, odd, familiar, broad and deep by turns.
(20) He bounced back with 2006's Clerks 2 , but a further knock was just around the corner in the shape of 2008's skewed romcom Zack And Miri Make A Porno , Smith's attempt to capitalise on the bawdy Judd Apatow comedies he saw himself as a part of.