bendy
English
editPronunciation
edit- IPA(key): /ˈbɛndi/
- (pin–pen merger) IPA(key): /ˈbɪndi/
Audio (General Australian): (file) - Rhymes: -ɛndi
Etymology 1
editAdjective
editbendy (comparative bendier, superlative bendiest)
- Having the ability to be bent easily.
- Bendy rulers are far more fun than the wooden ones.
- (informal) Of a person, flexible; having the ability to bend easily; resilient.
- 2010 September 1, Jackie K. Cooper, “Ashley Bell: The Last Exorcism Introduces the "Bendy" Girl”, in Huffington Post[1], retrieved 2013-05-09:
- 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"?
- Containing many bends and twists.
- a bendy road
- (of a vehicle) Articulated.
- 2009 January 31, Deal Book, “Defining Good or Bad Design”, in NYT[2], retrieved 2013-05-09:
- “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.
Synonyms
edit- (having the ability to be bent easily): flexible, pliable, supple
- (of a person): flexible, limber, lissom or lissome, lithe, supple
- (having many bends and twists): sinuous, tortuous, twisted, twisty, winding, windy
- (articulated): articulated, jointed
Derived terms
editTranslations
editHaving the ability to be bent easily
Of a person, flexible; having the ability to bend easily
Containing many bends and twists
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Noun
editbendy (plural bendies)
- (UK, slang) A bendy bus.
- 2016, Matthew Wharmby, The London Bendy Bus: The Bus We Hated, page 92:
- 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; […]
Etymology 2
editFrom Middle English bendee, from Old French bendé (past participle).
Adjective
editbendy (comparative more bendy, superlative most bendy)
- (heraldry) Divided into diagonal bands of colour.
- 1863, John Gough Nichols, The Herald and Genealogist, page 438:
- 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;
- 1904, The Genealogical Magazine, page 446:
- His arms as there displayed are emblazoned on a bendy field of his livery colours vert, argent and gules.
Noun
editbendy (plural bendies)
- (heraldry) A field divided diagonally into several bends, varying in metal and colour.
- 1927, Descendants of Richard and Elizabeth (Ewen) Talbott of Poplar Knowle, West River, Anne Arundel County, Maryland, page 436:
- The original escutcheon of the Norman family was a bendy of ten, argent and gules.
- 1985, Stained Glass Before 1700 in American Collections: Corpus Vitrearum Checklist I. New England and New York:
- […] , 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 […]
References
edit- The Manual of Heraldry, Fifth Edition, by Anonymous, London, 1862, online at [3]
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