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bed-wettingly

bed-wettingly adverb: extremely.

Adverb

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

  1. (colloquial) Extremely.
    • Overall Dick Tracy is a fairly good game, and although it’s not exactly bed-wettingly exciting, it’s worth checking out.1991, “Dick Tracy”, in Electric Brain, number 19, Nottingham, page 12, column 2
    • Entering the world of John Shuttleworth is giving yourself an insight into the life of a middle-aged ‘versatile singer song writer’, who lives with his wife Mary in a suburb of Sheffield. Why on earth this in itself should be so bed-wettingly funny, I have no idea.1999 February 12, Richard Sutcliffe, “Northern sole agent and the pigeon lover”, in Sutton Coldfield Observer, number 715, Sutton Coldfield, page 24

Examples of bed-wettingly in a sentence

  • Pity about the ubiquitous foam machine, but the surviving clip shows Oak and Quill as bed-wettingly terrifying (despite the terrible incidental music).2000, Mark Campbell, “42) Fury From The Deep (6 episodes)”, in Doctor Who: A Completely and Utterly Unauthorised Guide (Pocket Essentials...
  • Seen in the right light, and at an unexpected moment, they might have proved bed-wettingly frightening.2009, John Connolly, “In Which We Learn That One Should Be Careful About Accepting Anything That Is Offered For Nothing”, in The Gates: A...
  • Extraordinarily vicious, deeply cynical and thoroughly depraved, but it’s also bed-wettingly funny …2015, John Niven, quoting Scotsman, Kill Your Friends, London: Windmill Books, →ISBN:

Forms of bed-wettingly

comparativemore bed-wettingly
superlativemost bed-wettingly
alternative formbedwettingly

Origin of bed-wettingly

From bed-wetting + -ly.

Questions about bed-wettingly

What does bed-wettingly mean?
Bed-wettingly means extremely.
How do you use bed-wettingly in a sentence?
Pity about the ubiquitous foam machine, but the surviving clip shows Oak and Quill as bed-wettingly terrifying (despite the terrible incidental music).
What part of speech is bed-wettingly?
Bed-wettingly is an adverb.

Words near bed-wettingly in the dictionary

  1. bed-wets
  2. bed-wetted
  3. bed-wetter
  4. bed-wetters
  5. bed-wetting
  6. bed-wettingly
  7. bed-wettings
  8. Beda
  9. bedabble
  10. bedabbled
  11. bedabbles

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