Please define "bandying"...

[slofox]

Farcryzake, where do they get these radio reporters from - the illiterates' club?
Live feed on RNZ National this morning, re today's d'Auckland hikoi...

"Protestors are bandying together...."

How the hell does one "bandy"? Sounds like something you might do when you try to walk home after a whole day at the pub...

Please submit answers - Green bling for the best definition...

[Finn]

How the hell does one "bandy"? Sounds like something you might do when you try to walk home after a whole day at the pub...

Dunno about "bandy" but if anyone knows about spending a whole day at the pub, these protesters would.

[Headbanger]

How the hell does one "bandy"? Sounds like something you might do when you try to walk home after a whole day at the pub...

Please submit answers - Green bling for the best definition...

bandy

Also found in: Medical, Idioms, Encyclopedia, Wikipedia 0.02 sec.
ban·dy (bnd)
tr.v. ban·died, ban·dy·ing, ban·dies

1.
a. To toss or throw back and forth.
b. To hit (a ball, for example) back and forth.
2.

a. To give and receive (words, for example); exchange: The old friends bandied compliments when they met.
b. To discuss in a casual or frivolous manner: bandy an idea about.

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/bandying

[Laava]

Bandying; the act of grouping together for no particular reason, to do whatever seems like a good idea at the time.

[slofox]

bandy

Also found in: Medical, Idioms, Encyclopedia, Wikipedia 0.02 sec.
ban·dy (bnd)
tr.v. ban·died, ban·dy·ing, ban·dies

1.
a. To toss or throw back and forth.
b. To hit (a ball, for example) back and forth.
2.

a. To give and receive (words, for example); exchange: The old friends bandied compliments when they met.
b. To discuss in a casual or frivolous manner: bandy an idea about.

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/bandying

Yes, all that's the proper use of bandy...I want definitions of the new useage as per original thread...

[Headbanger]

Yes, all that's the proper use of bandy...I want definitions of the new useage as per original thread...

Simply using the wrong word doesn't mean its definition is changed to suit.

[avgas]

Bandying (verb)
- To create a bandy (noun) for a problem.
e.g. "He's over there bandying that damn labeller again - why don't they buy a new one?"

Bandy (noun)
- To create a solution for a problem that will not fix it, just cover the signs that a real problem exists.
Short for "Bandaid solution"
e.g. "Don't worry these cable ties and duct tape will make a mean bandy"

[Forest]

I expect the reporter meant to say "banding together".

[Big Dave]

Slowfox vocabulary fail.


bandy 1 |ˈbandē|
adjective ( -dier , -diest )
(of a person's legs) curved so as to be wide apart at the knees.
• (often bandy-legged) (of a person) having legs that are curved in such a way; bowlegged.
ORIGIN late 17th cent.: perhaps from obsolete bandy [curved stick used in hockey.]
bandy 2
verb ( -dies, -died) [ trans. ] (usu. be bandied about/around)
pass on or discuss an idea or rumor in a casual way : $40,000 is the figure that has been bandied about.
• exchange; pass back and forth : they bandied words and laughs from one to another.
noun
a game similar to field hockey.
• the stick used to play this game.
PHRASES
bandy words with argue pointlessly or rudely : don't bandy words with me, Sir!
ORIGIN late 16th cent.(in the sense [pass (a ball) to and fro] ): perhaps from French bander ‘take sides in a tennis match,’ from bande ‘band, crowd’ (see band 2 ).

[Skyryder]

Bandy= bow legged as say from a life time of riding horses.


Bandying= riding a horse.


Skyryder

[slofox]

I expect the reporter meant to say "banding together".

Slowfox vocabulary fail.


bandy 1 |ˈbandē|
adjective ( -dier , -diest )
(of a person's legs) curved so as to be wide apart at the knees.
• (often bandy-legged) (of a person) having legs that are curved in such a way; bowlegged.
ORIGIN late 17th cent.: perhaps from obsolete bandy [curved stick used in hockey.]
bandy 2
verb ( -dies, -died) [ trans. ] (usu. be bandied about/around)
pass on or discuss an idea or rumor in a casual way : $40,000 is the figure that has been bandied about.
• exchange; pass back and forth : they bandied words and laughs from one to another.
noun
a game similar to field hockey.
• the stick used to play this game.
PHRASES
bandy words with argue pointlessly or rudely : don't bandy words with me, Sir!
ORIGIN late 16th cent.(in the sense [pass (a ball) to and fro] ): perhaps from French bander ‘take sides in a tennis match,’ from bande ‘band, crowd’ (see band 2 ).

Simply using the wrong word doesn't mean its definition is changed to suit.

Guys guys guys - the whole point of this thread is the misuse of the phrase by the radio reporter. Of course she meant "banding together" but she is not the first person I have heard say "bandying together" in its place.
I thought it might be fun to make up a new definition...guess its Monday huh.

However, I DO like avgas's definitions and so award the first prize bling to him, closely followed by Laava. At least these two understood what I was on about...maybe I should have put this in "Jokes and Humour" instead......sigh...or perhaps I am just dense and confused myself...

[Big Dave]

It's an appropriate use of the word.
'The crowd were being smartarses to the Police' isn't good news-speak.

[slofox]

It's an appropriate use of the word.
'The crowd were being smartarses to the Police' isn't good news-speak.

What she actually said was..."people are bandying together to march to Aotea square..."
Still think it's appropriate?

[Finn]

What she actually said was..."people are bandying together to march to Aotea square..."
Still think it's appropriate?

No. They should all fuck off home.

[Big Dave]

>>people are bandying together to march to Aotea square<<

Not grammatically perhaps, but I'm OK with context.

'People were bandying together as they marched to Aotea square' would be better maybe.

'They were rarking up as they went uptown' is what I would use.