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bed-headed

bed-headed adjective: having bedhead.

Adjective

bed-headed (comparative more bed-headed, superlative most bed-headed)

  1. (colloquial) Having bedhead.
    • Amidst the aseptically-perfumed bare functionality, typifying a hospital ward, a pretty and petite elfin teenage girl stirs – tawny hair all tousled and bed-headed, lips full yet petulant.2009, Garth P Toyntanen, Institutionalized 2, page 11
    • William and a bed-headed Harry were joshing around at the altar like Luke and Han.2012 Apr, Caitlin Moran, The Times

Forms of bed-headed

comparativemore bed-headed
superlativemost bed-headed

Origin of bed-headed

From bedhead + -ed.

Questions about bed-headed

What does bed-headed mean?
Bed-headed means having bedhead.
What part of speech is bed-headed?
Bed-headed is an adjective.

Words near bed-headed in the dictionary

  1. bed-fast
  2. bed-fasts
  3. bed-frame
  4. bed-frames
  5. bed-gowned
  6. bed-headed
  7. bed-hop
  8. bed-hopped
  9. bed-hopper
  10. bed-hoppers
  11. bed-hopping

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