5 letters · 11 points in Scrabble
verb toss or strike a ball back and forth
verb exchange blows
verb discuss lightly
originFrom French bander (“to bandy at tennis”), with -y, -ie added due to influence from Spanish and Portuguese bandear and/or Old Occitan bandir (“to throw”), from the same root as English band. Compare also with banter.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0