bendy

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Having the ability to be bent easily.

   • Bendy rulers are far more fun than the wooden ones.
2. 2

   Of a person, flexible

   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. 3

   Containing many bends and twists.

   • a bendy road
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   1. 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.
   2. 5

      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; […]
   3. 6

      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.
   4. 7

      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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