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語源 1

From bend +‎ -y.

形容詞

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, 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, 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.

同意語

• (having the ability to be bent easily): flexible, pliable, supple
• (of a person): flexible, limber, lissom or lissome, lithe, supple
• (having many bends and twists): sinuous, tortuous, twisted, twisty, winding, windy
• (articulated): articulated, jointed

派生語

• bendiness
• bendy-boy
• bendy bus
• bendy straw

名詞

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; […]

語源 2

From 中期英語 bendee, from Old French bendé (past participle).

形容詞

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.

名詞

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 […]

参照

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

参考

• jungle bendy

アナグラム

• Denby, by-end