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bedworthy en · ADJ

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Etymology

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

Meanings

1. (slang) Sexually attractive.
   • Vandeuvres was undressing her with his eyes. 'Yes, she's bedworthy all right', he said, 'but I'm a bit suspicious of her thighs. Will you take a bet, she's got lousy thighs?' 1880, Émile Zola, translated by Douglas Parmée, Nana:
   • I had fleetingly noticed, had not perhaps noticed enough, how attractive, bedworthy, she looked with her fair hair down around her shoulders. 1988, Muriel Spark, A far cry from Kensington:

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