bendy

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
11
Words With Friends
12
Letters
5
Pronunciation
/ˈbɛndi/
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/ˈbɛndi/ · /ˈbɪndi/

Definition of bendy

7 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. Having the ability to be bent easily.
    “Bendy rulers are far more fun than the wooden ones.”
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adj

  1. Having the ability to be bent easily.
    “Bendy rulers are far more fun than the wooden ones.”
  2. (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"?”
  3. Containing many bends and twists.
    “a bendy road”
  4. 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.”
  5. (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

  1. (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; […]”
  2. 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[…]”

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Etymology

From bend + -y.

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