bender
English
/ˈbɛndə/, /ˈbɛndɚ/
noun
Definitions
- One who, or that which, bends.
- A device to aid bending of pipes to a specific angle.
- (slang) A bout of heavy drinking.
- (chiefly) A homosexual man.
- A simple shelter, made using flexible branches or withies
- (UK) A suspended sentence.
- (obsolete) A sixpence.
- (obsolete) A spree, a frolic.
- (obsolete) Something exceptional.
Etymology
Suffix from English bend.
Origin
English
bend
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- Bendgate English
- backbend English
- bend English
- bendability English
- bendable English
- bendest English
- bendeth English
- bendless English
- bendlet English
- bendly English
- bendopnea English
- bendsome English
- bendwise English
- bendy English
- bent English
- databend English
- disbend English
- genderbend English
- hell English
- hellbender English
- inbend English
- mind English
- mindbender English
- overbend English
- racebend English
- rebend English
- riverbend English
- spoon English
- spoonbender English
- unbend English
- upbend English
- wire English
- wirebender English
- ybent English
- bend Portuguese
- benden Middle English