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bendy¹

  • /ˈbɛndi/
  • /ˈbɪndi/ pin pen merger

Sounds like bindi · Rhymes with -ɛndi

Where it comes from

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *bʰendʰ-der.

Proto-Germanic *bindaną

Proto-Indo-European *-yeti

Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti

Proto-Germanic *-janą

Proto-Germanic *bandijaną

Proto-West Germanic *bandijan

Old English bendan

Middle English benden

English bend

Proto-Indo-European *-kos

Proto-Germanic *-gaz

Proto-West Germanic *-g

Old English -iġ

Middle English -y

English -y

English bendy

From bend + -y.

adjective bendier · 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. 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.

noun bendies

  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; […]

bendy²

  • /ˈbɛndi/
  • /ˈbɪndi/ pin pen merger

Sounds like bindi · Rhymes with -ɛndi

Where it comes from

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

adjective

  1. 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;

noun bendies

  1. 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.

bendy³

  • /ˈbɛndi/
  • /ˈbɪndi/ pin pen merger

Sounds like bindi · Rhymes with -ɛndi

noun

  1. obsolete, uncountable Obsolete form of bhindi.bhindi

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