bandy

1. 1.

   have legs that curve outward at the knees

   Synonymsbandy-leggedbowedbowlegbowlegged

   Similarunfit

Other forms of bandy

past tense or participle

bandied

present participle

bandying·

third person

bandies·

comparative or superlative

bandier

comparative or superlative

bandiest

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about bandy

What does bandy mean?

bandy means "toss or strike a ball back and forth". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in bandy?

bandy has 2 syllables: ban-dy. The stress falls on "ban". In IPA it is /ˈbændi/.

What is another word for bandy?

Close synonyms include kick around, bandy-legged, bowed, bowleg, bowlegged. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is bandy a common word?

bandy is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.