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Amelia Bedelia

Amelia Bedelia noun: an eccentric but cheerful housekeeper with a penchant for accidentally causing chaos, especially by misinterpreting figurative expressions as literal.

Noun

Amelia Bedelia (plural Amelia Bedelias)

  1. An eccentric but cheerful housekeeper with a penchant for accidentally causing chaos, especially by misinterpreting figurative expressions as literal.
    • For example, I did not know that the term "86" meant to run out of something, so when told by one chef to 86 arancini, I flew into a tizzy rummaging through every fridge looking for a giant tray of 86 nonexistent rice balls. The chef asked what I was doing, and when I told him, the entire kitchen...2024, Erin Wade, The Mac & Cheese Millionaire: Building a Better Business by Thinking Outside the Box, John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, page 38
    • Something happens to a woman when she has a baby. This beautiful miracle changes her forever. For me, I have become somewhat of a loon. We talked about that earlier. But I am serious. I am the Amelia Bedelia of motherhood. I just float around in a constant state of chaos, the likes of which are not...2018, Shelley Holtzendorff, The Job/Joy of Mommyhood, WestBow Press

Examples of Amelia Bedelia in a sentence

  • I was like the Amelia Bedelia of kitchen help.2024, Erin Wade, The Mac & Cheese Millionaire: Building a Better Business by Thinking Outside the Box, John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated...
  • Jones,' the Amelia Bedelia of grammar, writes replete with such anomalous forms such as bestest (Junie B.2018, Ralf Thiede, Children's Books, Brain Development, and Language Acquisition, Taylor & Francis:

Forms of Amelia Bedelia

pluralAmelia Bedelias

Origin of Amelia Bedelia

From the titular character in the children's book series Amelia Bedelia.

Questions about Amelia Bedelia

What does Amelia Bedelia mean?
Amelia Bedelia means an eccentric but cheerful housekeeper with a penchant for accidentally causing chaos, especially by misinterpreting figurative expressions as literal.
How do you use Amelia Bedelia in a sentence?
I was like the Amelia Bedelia of kitchen help.
What part of speech is Amelia Bedelia?
Amelia Bedelia is a noun.
What is the plural of Amelia Bedelia?
The plural of Amelia Bedelia is Amelia Bedelias.

Words near Amelia Bedelia in the dictionary

  1. Amele
  2. ameled
  3. ameletid
  4. ameli
  5. amelia
  6. Amelia Bedelia
  7. Amelia County
  8. Amelia Courthouse
  9. Amelia Island
  10. amelias
  11. amelic

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