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bendy

American  
[ben-dee] / ˈbɛn di /

adjective

bendier, bendiest
  1. tending to bend; flexible or resilient.


bendy 1 British  
/ ˈbɛndɪ /

adjective

  1. flexible or pliable

  2. having many bends

    a bendy road

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

bendy 2 British  
/ ˈbɛndɪ /

adjective

  1. (usually postpositive) heraldry striped diagonally

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of bendy

First recorded in 1975–80; bend 1 + -y 1

Example Sentences

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Fit & Bendy: This L.A.-based flexibility fitness studio has moved classes online via Zoom for $8.99.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 24, 2020

He can frustrate his opponents with the elasticity of his movement when he is defending – if Djokovic was in a circus, they’d market him as The Amazing Bendy Man.

From The Guardian • Jun. 7, 2015

The rival theory is that, when he was playing in the streets and his father appeared in the offing, his companions used to warn him by crying "Bendy go!"

From The Romance of Words (4th ed.) by Weekley, Ernest

Me'n General Custer throwed up Fort Bendy in two nights; that wuz in Montanny.

From Tom Slade at Black Lake by Hastings, Howard L. (Howard Livingston)

Bendy shields follow the rule of shields paly and barry, but as many as ten pieces have been counted in them.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 3 "Helmont, Jean" to "Hernosand" by Various

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