bendy
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 11
- Words With Friends
- 12
- Letters
- 5
/ˈbɛndi/
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/ˈbɛndi/ · /ˈbɪndi/
Definition of bendy
7 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
adj
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Having the ability to be bent easily.
“Bendy rulers are far more fun than the wooden ones.”
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adj
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Having the ability to be bent easily.
“Bendy rulers are far more fun than the wooden ones.”
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(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"?”
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Containing many bends and twists.
“a bendy road”
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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.”
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(not-comparable)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;”
“His arms as there displayed are emblazoned on a bendy field of his livery colours vert, argent and gules.”
noun
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(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; […]”
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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.”
“[…], 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[…]”
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From bend + -y.
Words you can make from bendy
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