bendern.

Brit.

/ˈbɛndə/, U.S.

/ˈbɛndər/

Etymology: < bend v. + -er suffix¹.

He who or that which bends.

1. An instrument for bending; a pair of pliers.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > equipment > pliers and nippers > [noun] > types of

bender1496

wire pliers1675

wire-cutter1794

side nippers1846

long-nose pliers1872

hawkbill1875

flat pliers1881

parrotbill1971

burr-nipper-

1496 Treat. Fysshynge wyth Angle in Bk. St. Albans (rev. ed.) sig. hiij To make your hokis..ye must haue..a bender: a payr of longe and smalle tongys.

1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Piegatoie, a paire of benders that goldsmithes vse, called bowing pincers or plyers.

1833 J. Rennie Alphabet Sci. Angling 69 The artist, of [fish-hooks] requires a hammer, a knife, a pair of pincers..a bender.

†2. A mechanical contrivance for bending, ‘drawing up,’ or setting crossbows. Obsolete.

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society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > archer's weapons > [noun] > bow > crossbow > device for bending crossbow

brakec1380

vicea1400

windas1443

tyllole1489

gaffle1497

rack1513

goat's footc1515

bending1530

crick1530

bender1684

garrot1824

moulinet1846

1684 R. Waller tr. Ess. Nat. Exper. Acad. del Cimento 146 Cros-bows that are bent with a Bender.

3. One who bends.

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society > armed hostility > warrior > armed man > [noun] > archer

archer1297

bowman1297

longbow1386

bowyerc1440

bow?c1510

fletcher1529

bender1590

bow-bearera1600

bow-bendera1697

sagittary1834

bowstringer1839

1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene i. i. sig. A4 The Eugh obedient to the benders will.

1833 Medwin in Fraser's Mag. 7 18 He..leads on the benders of the bow.

†a. A flexor muscle. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > the body > structural parts > muscle > types of muscles > [noun]

sphincter1578

raiser1588

in-muscle?1609

oblique1612

abducens1615

abductor1615

adductor1615

antagonist1615

bender1615

depressor1615

extender1615

flexor1615

levator1615

quadratus1615

rectus1615

retractor1615

sphincter-muscle1615

accelerator1638

bicepsa1641

elevator1646

adducent1649

lifter1649

rotator1657

flector1666

contractor1682

dilater1683

orbicularis palpebrarum1694

transverse muscle1696

tensor muscle1704

biventer1706

extensor1713

attollent1728

constrictor1741

dilator1741

risibles1785

orbicularis oculi1797

obliquus1799

erector1828

extensor-muscle1830

compressor1836

trans-muscle1836

antagonizer1844

motor1846

evertor1848

inflector1851

protractor1853

prime mover1860

orbicular1872

transversalis1872

invertor1875

skeletal muscle1877

dilatator1878

occlusor muscle1878

sphincter1879

pilomotor1892

agonist1896

1615 H. Crooke Μικροκοσμογραϕια 791 This muscle with the second and third benders of the thumb.

1668 N. Culpeper & A. Cole tr. T. Bartholin Anat. (new ed.) iv. viii. 165 Two Benders of the Cubit.

b. A leg or knee. slang (originally U.S.).

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > the body > external parts of body > limb > leg > [noun]

shanka900

legc1300

grainsa1400

limbc1400

foot?a1425

stumpa1500

pin?1515

pestlea1529

boughc1550

stamp1567

understander1583

pile1584

supporters1601

walker?1611

trestle1612

fetlock1645

pedestal1695

drumstick1770

gam1785

timber1807

tram1808–18

fork1812

prop1817

nethers1822

forkals1828

understanding1828

stick1830

nether person1835

locomotive1836

nether man1846

underpinning1848

bender1849

Scotch peg1857

Scotch1859

under-pinner1859

stem1860

Coryate's compasses1864

peg1891

wheel1927

shaft1935

the world > life > the body > external parts of body > limb > leg > knee > [noun]

kneec825

knop14..

marrowbone1506

gigot1687

knapper1767

prayer-bones1877

bender1925

knobblies1953

1849 H. W. Longfellow Kavanagh xii Young ladies are not allowed to cross their benders in school.

1925 A. S. M. Hutchinson One Increasing Purpose iii. xi They say family prayers there with the servants every night, all down on their benders.

†a. Scottish. A hard drinker. Obsolete. (Cf. bend v. 23.)

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > excess in drinking > [noun] > one who drinks to excess

houndOE

drinkerc1200

keach-cup?c1225

gulchcupa1250

bollerc1320

taverner1340

ale stake?1515

wine-bibber1535

bibber1536

swill-bowl1542

malt-wormc1550

rinse-pitcher1552

bibblera1556

ale knight1556

tosspot1568

ring-pigger1570

troll-the-bowl1575

malt-bug1577

gossip-pint-pot1580

black pot1582

alehouse knight1583

worrier1584

suck-spigot1585

bezzle1592

bezzlera1593

cup-leech1593

soaker1593

carouser1596

barley-cap1598

swiller1598

rob-pot1599

Philistine1600

sponge1600

wine-knight1601

fill-knaga1605

reel-pot1604

faithful1609

fill-pot1609

bouser1611

spigot-sucker1611

suck-pint1611

whip-can1611

bib-all-night1612

afternoon man1615

potling1616

Bacchanalian1617

bombard1617

pot-shot1617

potisuge1620

trougha1625

tumbrila1625

borachioa1627

pot-leech1630

kill-pota1637

biberon1637

bang-pitcher1639

son of Bacchusc1640

shuffler1642

suck-bottlea1652

swill-pot1653

poter1657

potatora1660

old soaker1665

fuddle cap1666

old toast1668

bubber1669

toper1673

ale-toast1691

Bacchant1699

fuddler1699

swill-belly1699

tickle-pitcher1699

whetter1709

draughtsmanc1720

bender1728

drammer1740

dram-drinker1744

drammist1756

rum-bud1805

siper1805

Bacchanal1812

boozera1819

rum-sucker1819

soak1820

imp of the spigot1821

polyposist1821

wineskin1821

sack-guzzler1823

sitfast1828

swill-flagon1829

cup-man1834

swiper1836

Lushington1851

lushing-man1859

bloat1860

pottle pot1860

tipsificator1873

tipsifier1873

pegger1874

swizzler1876

bibulant1883

toss-cup1883

lusher1895

stew-bum1902

shicker1906

stiff1907

souse1915

booze-hound1926

stumblebum1932

tanker1932

lush-hound1935

lushy1944

lush-head1945

binge drinker1946

pisshead1946

hophead1948

1728 A. Ramsay Poems (1848) III. 162 Now lend your lugs, ye benders fine, Wha ken the benefit of wine.

1810 R. Tannahill Poems (1846) 53 Or benders, blest your wizzens weetin'.

b. A bout of drinking; a riotous party. slang (originally U.S.).

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > excess in drinking > [noun] > drinking-bout

cups1406

drinking?1518

banquet1535

Bacchanal1536

pot-revel1577

compotation1593

rouse1604

Bacchanalia1633

potmealc1639

bout1670

drinking-bout1673

carouse1690

carousal1765

drunk1779

bouse1786

toot1790

set-to1808

spree1811

fuddlea1813

screed1815

bust1834

lush1841

bender1846

bat1848

buster1848

burst1849

soak1851

binge1854

bumming1860

bust-out1861

bum1863

booze1864

drink1865

ran-tan1866

cupping1868

crawl1877

hellbender1877

break-away1885

periodical1886

jag1894

booze-up1897

slopping-up1899

souse1903

pub crawl1915

blind1917

beer-up1919

periodic1920

scoot1924

brannigan1927

rumba1934

boozeroo1943

sesh1943

session1943

piss-up1950

pink-eye1958

binge drinking1964

society > leisure > social event > social gathering > party > [noun] > noisy or rowdy

bender1846

hooley1877

corroboree1885

wild party1925

whoopee1928

rort1941

wingding1949

blast1953

smash1963

roister1964

rave-in1967

rager1988

1846 D. Corcoran Pickings 62 I was on an almighty big bender last night..and the way we did walk into the highly concentrated hard cider.

1848 J. R. Lowell Biglow Papers 1st ser. Introd, ‘Two Gunners’, 39 ‘I won't agree to no such bender,’ Sez Isrel; ‘keep it [sc. the goose] tell it's tender.’

1861 J. R. Lowell Biglow Papers 2nd ser. i. 272 To go off on benders..an' waste their time in foolin’.

1887 J. Hatton Old House at Sandwich I. ii. iv. 82 The boss of Drummond's Gulch may be said to have begun his ‘bender’, as a bout of drunken dissipation was called in these regions.

1902 A. D. McFaul Ike Glidden in Maine xv. 177 Jim took the money, and started for the city on an old fashioned bender.

1929 K. S. Prichard Coonardoo 7 And I've warned Paddy Hanson to look after Hughie if Sam does get on a bender.

1933 Bulletin (Sydney) 14 June 11/4 Being on a strenuous bender, he had forgotten to sign a cheque.

1951 P. G. Wodehouse Old Reliable iv. 64 Where's the harm in an occasional bender? Boys will be boys.

6. slang. A sixpence. (? Because it bends easily.)

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society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > coins collective > English coins > [noun] > sixpence

tester1560

half-shilling1561

teston1577

mill sixpence1592

crinklepouch1593

sixpencea1616

testrila1616

piga1640

sice1660

Simon1699

sow's-baby1699

kick1725

cripple1785

grunter1785

tilbury1796

tizzy1804

tanner1811

bender1836

lord of the manor1839

snid1839

sprat1839

fiddler1846

sixpenny bit or piece1897

zac1898

sprasey1905

1836 C. Dickens Sketches by Boz 1st Ser. I. 317 Niver mind the loss of two bob and a bender!

1837 C. Dickens Pickwick Papers xli. 450 ‘Will you take three bob?’ ‘—And a bender,’ suggested the clerical gentleman.

1854 W. M. Thackeray Newcomes I. xi. 120 A half-crown, Honeyman? By cock and pye, it is not worth a bender.

7. A big or good specimen of its kind; a ‘whopper’, ‘corker’ (south-western dialect).

ΚΠ

1842 H. J. Daniel Bride of Scio 190 in Eng. Dial. Dict Ma vice [= fist] es wat I kal a bendur.

1891 R. P. Chope Dial. Hartland, Devonshire (at cited word) ‘A proper bender, an' no mistake!’

1898 R. Kipling Day's Work 204 By Jove, it's a bender of a night!

Draft additions March 2007

slang (originally U.S., now chiefly British). Originally: a homosexual man who assumes the receptive role in anal intercourse. In later use also (more generally): a (male) homosexual. Cf. bent adj. 5c.Originally used as a non-derogatory term among male homosexuals, but now chiefly derogatory and in more general use.

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the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual orientation > homosexuality > [noun] > a homosexual person > male

badlingeOE

nan1670

molly1708

Miss Molly1754

Miss Nancy1824

molly mop1829

poof1833

Margery?c1855

Mary Ann1868

pretty-boy1881

cocksucker1885

poofter1889

queer1894

fruit1895

fairy1896

homosexualist1898

puff1902

pussy1904

nance1910

quean1910

girl1912

faggot1913

mouser1914

queen1919

fag1921

gay boy1921

maricon1921

pie-face1922

bitch1923

Jessie1923

tapette1923

pansy1926

nancy boy1927

nelly1931

femme1932

ponce1932

punk1933

queerie1933

gobbler1934

jocker1935

queenie1935

iron1936

freak1941

swish1941

flit1942

tonk1943

wonk1945

mother1947

fruitcake1952

Mary1953

twink1953

swishy1959

limp wrist1960

arse bandit1961

leather man1961

booty bandit1962

ginger beer1964

bummer1965

poofteroo1966

shirtlifter1966

battyman1967

dick-sucker1968

mo1968

a friend of Dorothy1972

shim1973

gaylord1976

twinkie1977

woofter1977

bender1986

knob jockey1989

batty boy1992

cake boy1992

1965 Guild Dict. Homosexual Terms 3 Bender, a homosexual who submits to passive anal intercourse.

1971 D. Rader Gov't Inspected Meat xi. 121 Get ass-fucked like a bender by a butching lover.

1977 Spare Rib July 31/1 A dialogue about gayness began when the team challenged the coach, demanding to know if she was a ‘bender’!

1986 J. Joseph Persephone xxxvi. 177 He was a known bender.

1996 Daily Mirror (Nexis) 7 Sept. 16 Most of the people there were gay and I heard Liam say to Noel:..‘They're all benders. I'm off!’

2002 Observer 10 Nov. i. 31/4 I remembered hearing Fleet Street homophobes rave about the distinction between ‘stabbers’ and ‘benders’ for hours.

Draft additions March 2007

British (originally in Gypsy usage). Also more fully bender tent. A shelter made by covering a framework of bent branches with canvas or tarpaulin.

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the world > action or operation > safety > protection or defence > refuge or shelter > [noun] > shelter > a shelter > of specific kind

hover1602

cleit1825

bender1934

palapa1957

1934 Times 10 Jan. 7/5 They lived..in ‘benders’—willow branches bent over and covered with sacks.

1958 Man 58 89/1 The bender tent is familiar in Britain as the typical shelter of the Gypsies, particularly in the New Forest and in Surrey.

1993 R. Lowe & W. Shaw Travellers 220 We were all going to spend the winter together, so we thought we might as well build one big bender.

1997 R. Rendell Road Rage (1998) vi. 73 Jordan's men began pulling people out of the bender tents.

2001 A. Sayle Dog Catcher 306 I would go and live wild in a bender in the woods.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	bender
释义	bendern. Brit. /ˈbɛndə/, U.S. /ˈbɛndər/ Etymology: < bend v. + -er suffix¹. He who or that which bends. 1. An instrument for bending; a pair of pliers. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > pliers and nippers > [noun] > types of bender1496 wire pliers1675 wire-cutter1794 side nippers1846 long-nose pliers1872 hawkbill1875 flat pliers1881 parrotbill1971 burr-nipper- 1496 Treat. Fysshynge wyth Angle in Bk. St. Albans (rev. ed.) sig. hiij To make your hokis..ye must haue..a bender: a payr of longe and smalle tongys. 1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Piegatoie, a paire of benders that goldsmithes vse, called bowing pincers or plyers. 1833 J. Rennie Alphabet Sci. Angling 69 The artist, of [fish-hooks] requires a hammer, a knife, a pair of pincers..a bender. †2. A mechanical contrivance for bending, ‘drawing up,’ or setting crossbows. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > archer's weapons > [noun] > bow > crossbow > device for bending crossbow brakec1380 vicea1400 windas1443 tyllole1489 gaffle1497 rack1513 goat's footc1515 bending1530 crick1530 bender1684 garrot1824 moulinet1846 1684 R. Waller tr. Ess. Nat. Exper. Acad. del Cimento 146 Cros-bows that are bent with a Bender. 3. One who bends. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > warrior > armed man > [noun] > archer archer1297 bowman1297 longbow1386 bowyerc1440 bow?c1510 fletcher1529 bender1590 bow-bearera1600 bow-bendera1697 sagittary1834 bowstringer1839 1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene i. i. sig. A4 The Eugh obedient to the benders will. 1833 Medwin in Fraser's Mag. 7 18 He..leads on the benders of the bow. 4. †a. A flexor muscle. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > structural parts > muscle > types of muscles > [noun] sphincter1578 raiser1588 in-muscle?1609 oblique1612 abducens1615 abductor1615 adductor1615 antagonist1615 bender1615 depressor1615 extender1615 flexor1615 levator1615 quadratus1615 rectus1615 retractor1615 sphincter-muscle1615 accelerator1638 bicepsa1641 elevator1646 adducent1649 lifter1649 rotator1657 flector1666 contractor1682 dilater1683 orbicularis palpebrarum1694 transverse muscle1696 tensor muscle1704 biventer1706 extensor1713 attollent1728 constrictor1741 dilator1741 risibles1785 orbicularis oculi1797 obliquus1799 erector1828 extensor-muscle1830 compressor1836 trans-muscle1836 antagonizer1844 motor1846 evertor1848 inflector1851 protractor1853 prime mover1860 orbicular1872 transversalis1872 invertor1875 skeletal muscle1877 dilatator1878 occlusor muscle1878 sphincter1879 pilomotor1892 agonist1896 1615 H. Crooke Μικροκοσμογραϕια 791 This muscle with the second and third benders of the thumb. 1668 N. Culpeper & A. Cole tr. T. Bartholin Anat. (new ed.) iv. viii. 165 Two Benders of the Cubit. b. A leg or knee. slang (originally U.S.). ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > external parts of body > limb > leg > [noun] shanka900 legc1300 grainsa1400 limbc1400 foot?a1425 stumpa1500 pin?1515 pestlea1529 boughc1550 stamp1567 understander1583 pile1584 supporters1601 walker?1611 trestle1612 fetlock1645 pedestal1695 drumstick1770 gam1785 timber1807 tram1808–18 fork1812 prop1817 nethers1822 forkals1828 understanding1828 stick1830 nether person1835 locomotive1836 nether man1846 underpinning1848 bender1849 Scotch peg1857 Scotch1859 under-pinner1859 stem1860 Coryate's compasses1864 peg1891 wheel1927 shaft1935 the world > life > the body > external parts of body > limb > leg > knee > [noun] kneec825 knop14.. marrowbone1506 gigot1687 knapper1767 prayer-bones1877 bender1925 knobblies1953 1849 H. W. Longfellow Kavanagh xii Young ladies are not allowed to cross their benders in school. 1925 A. S. M. Hutchinson One Increasing Purpose iii. xi They say family prayers there with the servants every night, all down on their benders. 5. †a. Scottish. A hard drinker. Obsolete. (Cf. bend v. 23.) ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > excess in drinking > [noun] > one who drinks to excess houndOE drinkerc1200 keach-cup?c1225 gulchcupa1250 bollerc1320 taverner1340 ale stake?1515 wine-bibber1535 bibber1536 swill-bowl1542 malt-wormc1550 rinse-pitcher1552 bibblera1556 ale knight1556 tosspot1568 ring-pigger1570 troll-the-bowl1575 malt-bug1577 gossip-pint-pot1580 black pot1582 alehouse knight1583 worrier1584 suck-spigot1585 bezzle1592 bezzlera1593 cup-leech1593 soaker1593 carouser1596 barley-cap1598 swiller1598 rob-pot1599 Philistine1600 sponge1600 wine-knight1601 fill-knaga1605 reel-pot1604 faithful1609 fill-pot1609 bouser1611 spigot-sucker1611 suck-pint1611 whip-can1611 bib-all-night1612 afternoon man1615 potling1616 Bacchanalian1617 bombard1617 pot-shot1617 potisuge1620 trougha1625 tumbrila1625 borachioa1627 pot-leech1630 kill-pota1637 biberon1637 bang-pitcher1639 son of Bacchusc1640 shuffler1642 suck-bottlea1652 swill-pot1653 poter1657 potatora1660 old soaker1665 fuddle cap1666 old toast1668 bubber1669 toper1673 ale-toast1691 Bacchant1699 fuddler1699 swill-belly1699 tickle-pitcher1699 whetter1709 draughtsmanc1720 bender1728 drammer1740 dram-drinker1744 drammist1756 rum-bud1805 siper1805 Bacchanal1812 boozera1819 rum-sucker1819 soak1820 imp of the spigot1821 polyposist1821 wineskin1821 sack-guzzler1823 sitfast1828 swill-flagon1829 cup-man1834 swiper1836 Lushington1851 lushing-man1859 bloat1860 pottle pot1860 tipsificator1873 tipsifier1873 pegger1874 swizzler1876 bibulant1883 toss-cup1883 lusher1895 stew-bum1902 shicker1906 stiff1907 souse1915 booze-hound1926 stumblebum1932 tanker1932 lush-hound1935 lushy1944 lush-head1945 binge drinker1946 pisshead1946 hophead1948 1728 A. Ramsay Poems (1848) III. 162 Now lend your lugs, ye benders fine, Wha ken the benefit of wine. 1810 R. Tannahill Poems (1846) 53 Or benders, blest your wizzens weetin'. b. A bout of drinking; a riotous party. slang (originally U.S.). ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > excess in drinking > [noun] > drinking-bout cups1406 drinking?1518 banquet1535 Bacchanal1536 pot-revel1577 compotation1593 rouse1604 Bacchanalia1633 potmealc1639 bout1670 drinking-bout1673 carouse1690 carousal1765 drunk1779 bouse1786 toot1790 set-to1808 spree1811 fuddlea1813 screed1815 bust1834 lush1841 bender1846 bat1848 buster1848 burst1849 soak1851 binge1854 bumming1860 bust-out1861 bum1863 booze1864 drink1865 ran-tan1866 cupping1868 crawl1877 hellbender1877 break-away1885 periodical1886 jag1894 booze-up1897 slopping-up1899 souse1903 pub crawl1915 blind1917 beer-up1919 periodic1920 scoot1924 brannigan1927 rumba1934 boozeroo1943 sesh1943 session1943 piss-up1950 pink-eye1958 binge drinking1964 society > leisure > social event > social gathering > party > [noun] > noisy or rowdy bender1846 hooley1877 corroboree1885 wild party1925 whoopee1928 rort1941 wingding1949 blast1953 smash1963 roister1964 rave-in1967 rager1988 1846 D. Corcoran Pickings 62 I was on an almighty big bender last night..and the way we did walk into the highly concentrated hard cider. 1848 J. R. Lowell Biglow Papers 1st ser. Introd, ‘Two Gunners’, 39 ‘I won't agree to no such bender,’ Sez Isrel; ‘keep it [sc. the goose] tell it's tender.’ 1861 J. R. Lowell Biglow Papers 2nd ser. i. 272 To go off on benders..an' waste their time in foolin’. 1887 J. Hatton Old House at Sandwich I. ii. iv. 82 The boss of Drummond's Gulch may be said to have begun his ‘bender’, as a bout of drunken dissipation was called in these regions. 1902 A. D. McFaul Ike Glidden in Maine xv. 177 Jim took the money, and started for the city on an old fashioned bender. 1929 K. S. Prichard Coonardoo 7 And I've warned Paddy Hanson to look after Hughie if Sam does get on a bender. 1933 Bulletin (Sydney) 14 June 11/4 Being on a strenuous bender, he had forgotten to sign a cheque. 1951 P. G. Wodehouse Old Reliable iv. 64 Where's the harm in an occasional bender? Boys will be boys. 6. slang. A sixpence. (? Because it bends easily.) ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > coins collective > English coins > [noun] > sixpence tester1560 half-shilling1561 teston1577 mill sixpence1592 crinklepouch1593 sixpencea1616 testrila1616 piga1640 sice1660 Simon1699 sow's-baby1699 kick1725 cripple1785 grunter1785 tilbury1796 tizzy1804 tanner1811 bender1836 lord of the manor1839 snid1839 sprat1839 fiddler1846 sixpenny bit or piece1897 zac1898 sprasey1905 1836 C. Dickens Sketches by Boz 1st Ser. I. 317 Niver mind the loss of two bob and a bender! 1837 C. Dickens Pickwick Papers xli. 450 ‘Will you take three bob?’ ‘—And a bender,’ suggested the clerical gentleman. 1854 W. M. Thackeray Newcomes I. xi. 120 A half-crown, Honeyman? By cock and pye, it is not worth a bender. 7. A big or good specimen of its kind; a ‘whopper’, ‘corker’ (south-western dialect). ΚΠ 1842 H. J. Daniel Bride of Scio 190 in Eng. Dial. Dict Ma vice [= fist] es wat I kal a bendur. 1891 R. P. Chope Dial. Hartland, Devonshire (at cited word) ‘A proper bender, an' no mistake!’ 1898 R. Kipling Day's Work 204 By Jove, it's a bender of a night! Draft additions March 2007 slang (originally U.S., now chiefly British). Originally: a homosexual man who assumes the receptive role in anal intercourse. In later use also (more generally): a (male) homosexual. Cf. bent adj. 5c.Originally used as a non-derogatory term among male homosexuals, but now chiefly derogatory and in more general use. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual orientation > homosexuality > [noun] > a homosexual person > male badlingeOE nan1670 molly1708 Miss Molly1754 Miss Nancy1824 molly mop1829 poof1833 Margery?c1855 Mary Ann1868 pretty-boy1881 cocksucker1885 poofter1889 queer1894 fruit1895 fairy1896 homosexualist1898 puff1902 pussy1904 nance1910 quean1910 girl1912 faggot1913 mouser1914 queen1919 fag1921 gay boy1921 maricon1921 pie-face1922 bitch1923 Jessie1923 tapette1923 pansy1926 nancy boy1927 nelly1931 femme1932 ponce1932 punk1933 queerie1933 gobbler1934 jocker1935 queenie1935 iron1936 freak1941 swish1941 flit1942 tonk1943 wonk1945 mother1947 fruitcake1952 Mary1953 twink1953 swishy1959 limp wrist1960 arse bandit1961 leather man1961 booty bandit1962 ginger beer1964 bummer1965 poofteroo1966 shirtlifter1966 battyman1967 dick-sucker1968 mo1968 a friend of Dorothy1972 shim1973 gaylord1976 twinkie1977 woofter1977 bender1986 knob jockey1989 batty boy1992 cake boy1992 1965 Guild Dict. Homosexual Terms 3 Bender, a homosexual who submits to passive anal intercourse. 1971 D. Rader Gov't Inspected Meat xi. 121 Get ass-fucked like a bender by a butching lover. 1977 Spare Rib July 31/1 A dialogue about gayness began when the team challenged the coach, demanding to know if she was a ‘bender’! 1986 J. Joseph Persephone xxxvi. 177 He was a known bender. 1996 Daily Mirror (Nexis) 7 Sept. 16 Most of the people there were gay and I heard Liam say to Noel:..‘They're all benders. I'm off!’ 2002 Observer 10 Nov. i. 31/4 I remembered hearing Fleet Street homophobes rave about the distinction between ‘stabbers’ and ‘benders’ for hours. Draft additions March 2007 British (originally in Gypsy usage). Also more fully bender tent. A shelter made by covering a framework of bent branches with canvas or tarpaulin. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > safety > protection or defence > refuge or shelter > [noun] > shelter > a shelter > of specific kind hover1602 cleit1825 bender1934 palapa1957 1934 Times 10 Jan. 7/5 They lived..in ‘benders’—willow branches bent over and covered with sacks. 1958 Man 58 89/1 The bender tent is familiar in Britain as the typical shelter of the Gypsies, particularly in the New Forest and in Surrey. 1993 R. Lowe & W. Shaw Travellers 220 We were all going to spend the winter together, so we thought we might as well build one big bender. 1997 R. Rendell Road Rage (1998) vi. 73 Jordan's men began pulling people out of the bender tents. 2001 A. Sayle Dog Catcher 306 I would go and live wild in a bender in the woods. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1496
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