bendy

名词 n. 形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A bendy bus. UK,slang
    — 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; […]
  2. 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.
形容词 adj.
  1. Having the ability to be bent easily.
    — Bendy rulers are far more fun than the wooden ones.
  2. Divided into diagonal bands of colour. not-comparable
    — 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;
  3. Of a person, flexible; having the ability to bend easily; resilient. informal
    — 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"?
  4. Containing many bends and twists.
    — a bendy road
  5. 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.

词形变化

bendier comparative bendiest superlative bendies plural bendies plural

词汇关系

衍生词
bendiness bendy-boy bendy bus bendy straw

词源

词源 1
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.
词源 2
From Middle English bendee, from Old French bendé (past participle).
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