Bewdy vs Bendy - What's the difference?
bewdy | bendy |
* 1933 , Blackwood's Magazine , Volume 233,
* 1936 , The American Caravan , Volume 5,
* 2008 , Nage Archer, Slave Heart ,
(Australia, informal) A beauty: a beautiful person or thing; an especially good example of something.
* 1987 , , John Larkin, Chipp ,
* 1993 , , The Lonely Hunter ,
* 1997 , Paul Mitchell, Dodging the Bull ,
* 2000 , ,
* 2004 , Peter Smith, Australia in the Raw: An Eclectic Collection of Meandering Musings ,
* 1993 , Patti Walkuski, David Harris, No Bed of Roses: Memoirs of a Madam ,
* 2009 , Howard Young, Searching the Crocodile Coast: Sequel to Crocodile Coast Crash ,
* 2011 , , Man Bites Murdoch: Four Decades in Print, Six Days in Court ,
Having the ability to be bent easily.
(informal) Of a person, flexible; having the ability to bend easily.
Containing many bends and twists.
Of a vehicle, articulated.
(heraldry) Divided into diagonal bands of colour
(heraldry) A field divided diagonally into several bends, varying in metal and colour.
As nouns the difference between bewdy and bendy
is that bewdy is while bendy is (heraldry) a field divided diagonally into several bends, varying in metal and colour.As an interjection bewdy
is .As an adjective bendy is
having the ability to be bent easily.bewdy
English
Noun
(bewdies)page 350,
- “Say,” she continued, “ I wish I had time ta take ya to a bewdy parlor. Yew'd look cute by the time I had ya face fixed and ya eyebrows done and ya hair waved.”
page 625,
- This was bewdy .
page 189,
- Lovely smile, doncha know. She wos a bewdy , pretty as a rosella.
page 35,
- The day before the Press Club luncheon, I was in Traralgon, Victoria, when a fellow came up to me in a bar and said, ‘Chippy, that bloody slogan suits you down to the ground. It?s a bewdy .’
page 15,
- ‘Look at this bewdy .’ Romeo held out a fat rose from the bush he was pruning.
page 94,
- But she still cooks a bewdy of a roast.
page 172,
- ‘'This little bewdy I cut out of a magazine and stuck down on a piece of card... Don?t tell anyone, mind. The tourists love it.’
page 97,
- Course the silly bugger fell in love with this Yank bewdy called Linda Koslowski and that was the end to his long term marriage.
Derived terms
* you bewdy (interjection)See also
* bonzer (adjective)Interjection
(en interjection)- I scored us a couple of tickets to the match on Saturday.'' — ''Bewdy , mate!
page 124,
- The young woman gave them the fingers up and walked back disdainfully, ignoring their whistles and shouts of, ‘Bewdy , you showed him.’
page 6,
- “Bewdy! ” said Hugh, as he turned away to get his breakfast.
page 123,
- ‘Listen, I?ll give it some thought,’ I said. ‘I?ll come back to you tomorrow, okay?’ I was being polite.
- ‘Tomorrow? Bewdy ,’ said Mallon.
bendy
English
Adjective
(er)- Bendy rulers are far more fun than the wooden ones.
- {{quote-web
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- a bendy road
- {{quote-web
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