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bandier

bandier is the comparative form of bandy.

Meaning of bandy

Adjective

bandy (comparative bandier, superlative bandiest)

  1. Bow-legged, having knees bending outward.
    • Then the Parson might preach, and drink, and sing, / And we’d be as happy as birds in the spring; / And modest Dame Lurch, who is always at church, / Would not have bandy children, nor fasting, nor birch.1794, William Blake, The Little Vagabond, third stanza

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Noun

bandier (plural bandiers)

  1. One who bandies.
    • a bandier of words

Forms of bandier

pluralbandiers

Questions about bandier

What does bandier mean?
Bandier means one who bandies.
What is bandier the comparative form of?
Bandier is the comparative form of bandy.
What part of speech is bandier?
Bandier is a noun.
What is the plural of bandier?
The plural of bandier is bandiers.

Words near bandier in the dictionary

  1. bandicoy
  2. bandied
  3. bandied about
  4. bandied around
  5. bandied words
  6. bandier
  7. bandiers
  8. bandies
  9. bandies about
  10. bandies around
  11. bandies words

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bandier (page history and authors); bandy (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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