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bendy

/ˈbɛndi/

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bendy adjective: having the ability to be bent easily. Also the obsolete form of bhindi.

bendy: having the ability to be bent easily
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Adjective (1)

bendy (comparative bendier, superlative bendiest)

  1. Having the ability to be bent easily.
    • Bendy rulers are far more fun than the wooden ones.
    Synonyms:
    flexible, pliable, supple
  2. (informal) Of a person, flexible; having the ability to bend easily; resilient.
    • When I was in the scene in the barn he encouraged me to do as many contortions as I could, and he seemed to like the fact I was so 'bendy.' … After all how many young actresses in Hollywood are "bendy"?2010 September 1, Jackie K. Cooper, “Ashley Bell: The Last Exorcism Introduces the "Bendy" Girl”, in Huffington Post, retrieved 09 May 2013
  3. Containing many bends and twists.
    • a bendy road
  4. Articulated.
    • “The bendy bus is very easy to get on to and can carry twice as many passengers and more people can sit down,” Ms. Cottam said.2009 January 31, Deal Book, “Defining Good or Bad Design”, in NYT, retrieved 09 May 2013
    Synonyms:
    articulated, jointed

Noun (1)

bendy (plural bendies)

  1. (UK, slang) A bendy bus.
    • Finally for November, on the 26th double-deckers were restored to the 29, which under bendies had gained an unsavoury reputation that it simply hadn't merited before this form of transport was imposed upon it; […]2016, Matthew Wharmby, The London Bendy Bus: The Bus We Hated, page 92

Adjective (2)

bendy (not comparable)

  1. Divided into diagonal bands of colour.
    • 7. Talbot, Bendy gules and argent; 8. Comyn, Gules, three garbs within a tressure flory counter-flory or; 9. Valence, Barry of ten argent and azure, an orle of martlets gules;1863, John Gough Nichols, The Herald and Genealogist, page 438
    • His arms as there displayed are emblazoned on a bendy field of his livery colours vert, argent and gules.1904, The Genealogical Magazine, page 446

Noun (2)

bendy (plural bendies)

  1. A field divided diagonally into several bends, varying in metal and colour.
    • The original escutcheon of the Norman family was a bendy of ten, argent and gules.1927, Descendants of Richard and Elizabeth (Ewen) Talbott of Poplar Knowle, West River, Anne Arundel County, Maryland, page 436
    • […], 3 within a bordure gules a bendy of six or and azure (Burgundy Ancient), 4 sable a lion rampant or (Brabant), overall an inescutcheon or a lion rampant sable (Flanders); encircled by[…]1985, Stained Glass Before 1700 in American Collections: Corpus Vitrearum Checklist I. New England and New York

Also used as

bendy is also the obsolete form of bhindi.

Synonyms of bendy

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Forms of bendy

Adjective
comparativebendier
superlativebendiest
Noun
pluralbendies

Origin of bendy

From bend + -y.

From Middle English bendee, from Old French bendé (past participle).

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Questions about bendy

What does bendy mean?
Bendy means having the ability to be bent easily.
What part of speech is bendy?
Bendy can be an adjective or a noun.
How do you pronounce bendy?
Bendy is pronounced /ˈbɛndi/.

Words near bendy in the dictionary

  1. bends to one's will
  2. bends to someone's will
  3. bendsome
  4. bendways
  5. bendwise
  6. bendy
  7. bendy bus
  8. bendy buses
  9. bendy straw
  10. bendy straws
  11. bendy-boy

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