bendy

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Etymology 1

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From bend +‎ -y.

Adjective

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bendy (comparative bendier, superlative bendiest)

  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.
    • 2010 September 1, Jackie K. Cooper, “Ashley Bell: The Last Exorcism Introduces the "Bendy" Girl”, in Huffington Post[1], retrieved 2013-05-09:
      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. (of a vehicle) Articulated.
    • 2009 January 31, Deal Book, “Defining Good or Bad Design”, in NYT[2], retrieved 2013-05-09:
      “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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Noun

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bendy (plural bendies)

  1. (UK, slang) A bendy bus.
    • 2016, Matthew Wharmby, The London Bendy Bus: The Bus We Hated, page 92:
      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; []

Etymology 2

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From Middle English bendee, from Old French bendé (past participle).

Bendy of six, or and gules.

Adjective

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bendy (comparative more bendy, superlative most bendy)

  1. (heraldry) Divided into diagonal bands of colour.
    • 1863, John Gough Nichols, The Herald and Genealogist, page 438:
      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;
    • 1904, The Genealogical Magazine, page 446:
      His arms as there displayed are emblazoned on a bendy field of his livery colours vert, argent and gules.

Noun

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bendy (plural bendies)

  1. (heraldry) A field divided diagonally into several bends, varying in metal and colour.
    • 1927, Descendants of Richard and Elizabeth (Ewen) Talbott of Poplar Knowle, West River, Anne Arundel County, Maryland, page 436:
      The original escutcheon of the Norman family was a bendy of ten, argent and gules.
    • 1985, Stained Glass Before 1700 in American Collections: Corpus Vitrearum Checklist I. New England and New York:
      [] , 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 []

References

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  • The Manual of Heraldry, Fifth Edition, by Anonymous, London, 1862, online at [3]

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