Capable of being bent easily; flexible and pliable; having the quality of bending readily.
From 'bend' plus the suffix '-some' (Old English, meaning 'having the quality of causing or being'). Archaic or rare formation following historical English patterns.
Suffixes like '-some' (as in 'handsome,' 'fearsome') reveal how English used to be more flexible in word formation—'bendsome' should exist but sounds archaic because we prefer '-able' now!
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