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First published 1934 (SND Vol. I). Includes material from the 2005 supplement.
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BANDIE, BANDY, Baanie, n. A minnow or stickleback. [′bɑndi Sc.; ′bɑ:nɪ̢, Mry., Bnff.]Bnff.² 1933:
The loons spent the hail foreneen catchin' baanies in a hole of the burn aneth the brig.Abd. 1851 W. Anderson Rhymes, etc. 150:
The laddies catch't bandies an' eels i' the burn. [Jam.² 1825 gives bandy for Abd.]Abd. 1998 Sheena Blackhall The Bonsai Grower 76:
... far Gillanders the warlock drappit tippence inno the watter frae his hip pooch ae nicht as he flew hame frae a tryst wi the Earl o Hell. Twis the lit an the set o a tippenny bit, the Tippeny Puil, wi a muckle flat steen in the mids o't that the Martullich bairns likit tae lie on, an watch the dertin wee bandies heezin aroon the ripple o the burnie. Abd. 2000 Herald 12 Oct 7:
But mostly, we two were left to our own play with the half dozen or so cottar bairns who, by chance, were all boys.
We swam in the North Sea, caught bandies with nets in the river Ythan and made traps for trout out of the empty wine bottles our parents generated in abundance. Ags. 1897 D. Carnegie in A. Reid Bards of Ags. and the Mearns 107:
[We wad] turn the big stanes the sma' bandies to chase.m.Sc. 1998 Mavis Beckett in Neil R. MacCallum Lallans 51 38:
Wurrums! Whit wurrums? She had powheids an bandies but she'd niver keepit wurrums.