bendy

American  

[ben-dee] / ˈbɛn di /

adjective

bendier, bendiest

1. tending to bend; flexible or resilient.

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bendy ¹ British  

/ ˈbɛndɪ /

adjective

1. flexible or pliable

2. having many bends

   a bendy road

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bendy ² British  

/ ˈbɛndɪ /

adjective

1. (usually postpositive) heraldry striped diagonally

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Etymology

Origin of bendy

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

Example Sentences

Once those bendy guys are on campus, Cignetti has his strength coach put them through a bevy of mobility drills to keep their joints moving smoothly.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 8, 2026

"And sometimes she'd just have to pick one of my limbs up and put it where she wanted, like I was one of them bendy spidermen toys," he laughed.

From BBC • Dec. 18, 2024

To address this challenge, UNC -Chapel Hill and Vanderbilt University researchers have been working on an extremely bendy but sturdy robot capable of traversing lung tissue.

From Science Daily • Sep. 21, 2023

He was playing with that bendy quality I had.

From New York Times • May 6, 2023

On one side of the bendy part was a woman with a crate on wheels packed tightly with plastic grocery bags, and on the other was a man painted head-to-toe in silver, reading a newspaper.

From "Book Scavenger" by Jennifer Chambliss Bertman