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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

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

Old man Henry Bendy, he my marster and he run de store here in Woodville and have de farm, too.

From Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Texas Narratives, Part 1 by Work Projects Administration

Only Bendy had gone by the time it come, and—I 'adn't.

From No Man's Land by McNeile, H. C. (Herman Cyril)

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