bandy

bandy
\ \ [16] To ‘bandy words with someone’ may go back to an original idea of ‘banding together to oppose others’. The word comes from French banderoppose’, which is possibly a derivative of bandegroup, company’ (source of English band). The rather complex semantic development goes from ‘taking sides’, through ‘opposing a third party’, ‘exchanging blows’, ‘exchanging hits’ (in the 16th and 17th centuries it was a term in tennis), to ‘exchanging hostile words’.
\ \ The adjective bandy [17], as in ‘bandy legs’, probably comes from the noun bandycurved stick used in an early form of hockey’ (the game was also known as bandy). It may ultimately be related to the verb bandy, the connection being the notion of knocking a ball to and fro.
\ \ Cf.BAND

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