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bedrel en · ADJ

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Germanic *badją Proto-West Germanic *badi Old English bedd Middle English bed English bed English -rel English bedrel From bed + -rel.

Meanings

  1. (obsolete, rare) Bedridden.
    • there is no man so crazed, bedrell, or decrepit, so long as he remembers Methusalem, but thinkes he may yet live twentie yeares. , Folio Society, 2006, vol.1, p.65

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bedrel en · NOUN

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Germanic *badją Proto-West Germanic *badi Old English bedd Middle English bed English bed English -rel English bedrel From bed + -rel.

Meanings

  1. (UK, dialectal) A bedridden person; a helpless cripple.

Forms

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