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bed warmer

bed warmer is the alternative form of bedwarmer.

Meaning of bedwarmer

Noun

bedwarmer (plural bedwarmers)

  1. (historical) A covered metal pan attached to a long handle, holding live coals and used to warm a bed.
    Synonyms:
    warming pan
  2. (broadly) A concubine or mistress.
    • "You speak of lowly! You, once a slave whore whose only purpose wad bed hopping! You, a Cultellrin whore! You may be a queen, but that ends now! This moment! From now on you are nothing more than my bedwarmer! You'd better pray to your god that I never tire of you, for if I do, I'll split your gut...1983, Ran Cartwright, The Darkening

Forms of bed warmer

pluralbed warmers

Questions about bed warmer

What is bed warmer the alternative form of?
Bed warmer is the alternative form of bedwarmer.

Words near bed warmer in the dictionary

  1. bed truck
  2. bed trucks
  3. bed urinal
  4. bed urinals
  5. bed wagon
  6. bed warmer
  7. bed wench
  8. bed wenches
  9. bed wetter
  10. bed wetters
  11. bed wrench

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bed warmer (page history and authors); bedwarmer (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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