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bedmaker en · NOUN

Pronunciation

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Etymology

From Middle English bedmaker, bedmakere, equivalent to bed + maker. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Bäädmoaker (“bedmaker”), West Frisian bêdmakker (“bedmaker”), Dutch beddenmaker (“bedmaker”), German Bettmacher (“bedmaker”).

Meanings

1. someone who manufactures beds
2. (formal, historical, qualifier:Cambridge University) A bedder.
   • Bedmakers have to be comic and dishonest. It is expected of them. In a picture of university life it is their only function. 1907, E.M. Forster, The Longest Journey, Part I, I [Uniform ed., p. 17]

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Deriveds

bedder