bendy

comparative bendier · superlative bendiest

1. Having the ability to be bent easily.

   Bendy rulers are far more fun than the wooden ones.

   Synonyms: flexible, pliable, supple

2. informalOf 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"?

   2010 September 1, Jackie K. Cooper, “Ashley Bell: The Last Exorcism Introduces the "Bendy" Girl”, in Huffington Post, retrieved 09 May 2013

   Synonyms: flexible, limber, lissom, lissome, lithe, supple

3. Containing many bends and twists.

   a bendy road

   Synonyms: sinuous, tortuous, twisted, twisty, winding, windy

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.

   2009 January 31, Deal Book, “Defining Good or Bad Design”, in NYT, retrieved 09 May 2013

   Synonyms: articulated, jointed

plural bendies

1. UKslangA 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; […]

   2016, Matthew Wharmby, The London Bendy Bus: The Bus We Hated, page 92

1. not comparablegovernmentDivided into diagonal bands of colour.

   His arms as there displayed are emblazoned on a bendy field of his livery colours vert, argent and gules.

   1904, The Genealogical Magazine, page 446

   1 more example

   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;

   1863, John Gough Nichols, The Herald and Genealogist, page 438

plural bendies

1. governmentA 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.

   1927, Descendants of Richard and Elizabeth (Ewen) Talbott of Poplar Knowle, West River, Anne Arundel County, Maryland, page 436

   1 more example

   […], 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[…]

   1985, Stained Glass Before 1700 in American Collections: Corpus Vitrearum Checklist I. New England and New York

1. obsoleteuncountableObsolete form of bhindi.