Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary - bandy

 I. verb  (bandied; ~ing)  Etymology: origin unknown  Date: 1577  transitive verb  1. to bat (as a tennis ball) to and fro  2.  a. to toss from side to side or pass about from one to another often in a careless or inappropriate manner  b. exchange; especially to exchange (words) argumentatively  c. to discuss lightly or banteringly  d. to use in a glib or offhand manner — often used with about ~ these statistics about with considerable bravado — Richard Pollak  3. archaic to band together  intransitive verb  1. obsolete contend  2. archaic unite  II. noun  Date: 1693 a game similar to hockey and believed to be its prototype  III. adjective  Etymology: perhaps from 2~ (hockey stick)  Date: 1687  1. of legs bowed  2. bowlegged  • ~-legged adjective