Other forms: fenders
A fender is the panel over a wheel that keeps mud off. A dented fender, a fender bender, the front fender.
It is American; Britain says wing or mudguard. A fender bender is a minor collision. On a boat, a fender is the cushion hung over the side to stop the hull knocking against a quay, and it is the same word doing the same job.
1nounfenderThe panel over a wheel that keeps mud off.
“The car scraped the wall and left a big dent in the front fender.”
fender is a part.
Also accepted in games: mudguard
Proto-Indo-European
*gʷʰen- — strike, kill
Proto-Italic
*fendō
Latin
dēfendō — to ward off
Old French
deffendre
Middle English
fenden — defend, fight, prevent
English
fend
English, today
fender
Built from
From fend + -er. fend comes from Middle English fenden (“defend, fight, prevent”), shortening of defenden (“defend”), from Old French deffendre (Modern défendre), from Latin dēfendō (“to ward off”), from dē + fendō, from Proto-Italic fendō, from Proto-Indo-European gʷʰen- (“strike, kill”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA