Etymology

pliable

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Today it means: Soft, flexible, easily bent, formed, shaped, or molded. Full definition →

Old French ploiable
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  1. Old French · derived fromploiable
  2. English todaypliable

From Middle French, from Old French ploiable, from ploiier (“to fold”). By surface analysis, ply + -able. Compare pliant.

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