bendsome

English

Etymology

From bend +‎ -some.

Adjective

bendsome (comparative more bendsome, superlative most bendsome)

1. (archaic or puristic, rare) Marked by bending or flexibility; flexible; pliable.

   Synonym: lithy

   • 1914, Charlie Dunbar Broad, Perception, physics, and reality:

     After all why should not our movement be a cause of their change of shape according to definite laws just as well as our squeezing them with our fingers if they chance to be made of some bendsome material ?