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bally about

bally about is the alternative form of bandy about.

Meaning of bandy about

Verb

bandy about (third-person singular simple present bandies about, present participle bandying about, simple past and past participle bandied about)

  1. (transitive) To say (things) frequently and casually, without due consideration.
    • There are a lot of different figures being bandied about, but the exact cost will not be known for some time yet.
    Synonyms:
    bandy around

Forms of bally about

third-person singular presentballies about
present participleballying about
past participleballied about
pastballied about

Questions about bally about

What is bally about the alternative form of?
Bally about is the alternative form of bandy about.

Words near bally about in the dictionary

  1. Ballville
  2. Ballweg
  3. Ballwegs
  4. Ballwin
  5. bally
  6. bally about
  7. bally-warche
  8. bally-warches
  9. bally-wartch
  10. bally-wartches
  11. ballyard

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bally about (page history and authors); bandy about (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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