a. [f. WAND sb. + -Y.]
† 1. (See quot.) Obs.
1611. Cotgr., Baguetteux, wandie, full of rods, wands, or switches.
2. Resembling a wand; long and flexible. rare.
1825. Brockett, N. C. Gloss., Wandy, long and flexible; like a wand.
1880. Lanier, Poems, On a Palmetto, 3. To where expands His wandy circlet with his bladed bands Dividing every wind.
3. dial. (See quots.) [Possibly a different word, directly f. wand- to turn: see WEND v.]
1824. Carr, Craven Dial., 9. He wor a mortal nice viewly wandy beast.
1876. Mid-Yorksh. Gloss., s.v., ‘A wandy body,’ is a person one would consider stout, but who is well-made and active.
