bedwise en · ADV
Etymology
From bed + -wise.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) With regard to a bed or beds; often in allusion to sex.
She sitting here behind a crossbar and what of Joe Lanigan, sprawling bedwise with his nurse-whore?
2009, Megan Abbott, Bury Me Deep, Waterville, M.E.: Thorndike Press, →ISBN, page 300:I mean, every woman there from sixteen to eighty was giving him the what-about-it-sign and I — let's be honest — had nothing bedwise to offer.
1997, R[onald] Chetwynd-Hayes, “Rudolph”, in Stephen Jones, editor, The Mammoth Book of Dracula: Vampire Tales for the New Millennium, London: Robinson Publishing, →ISBN, page 302:While the others got sorted out bedwise, Madeleine and Élodie lingered on in the kitchen and helped Clemency clear up the remains of the meal.
1999, Carol Smith, Family Reunion, New York, N.Y.: Mysterious Press, →ISBN, page 180:'What I didn't...still don't understand is why you held off from trying me out, bedwise, before taking me on as a wife,' said Liz. 'If you had been a shy man, awkward with women, it might have made sense. But for Valdecarrasca's notorious womaniser to hold back seemed very peculiar.'
2002, Anne Weale [pseudonym; Jay Blakeney], A Spanish Honeymoon, Richmond: Mills & Boon, →ISBN, page 277: