英语词汇bandy的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

bandy; bandy-legged. This word for bowlegged (legs shaped something like these parentheses), strangely enough, derives from a comparison of bowlegs with the curved sticks used in the 17th-century Irish game of bandy, the precursor of hockey. No one is sure where the word bandy that gave us the game of bandy, bandysticks, and bandy-legged comes from, though earlier it was a tennis term. In playing ancient hockey, the ball was bandied from side to side and fought for, which led to meta- phors like “I’m not going to bandy words with you”; that is, “I’m not going to argue, wrangle over nothing.”

词汇	bandy
词源	bandy; bandy-legged. This word for bowlegged (legs shaped something like these parentheses), strangely enough, derives from a comparison of bowlegs with the curved sticks used in the 17th-century Irish game of bandy, the precursor of hockey. No one is sure where the word bandy that gave us the game of bandy, bandysticks, and bandy-legged comes from, though earlier it was a tennis term. In playing ancient hockey, the ball was bandied from side to side and fought for, which led to meta- phors like “I’m not going to bandy words with you”; that is, “I’m not going to argue, wrangle over nothing.”
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