Word.ws English Dictionary

bedlamer

More pronunciations (1)Fewer pronunciations

Canada/ˈbɛdləmɚ/

bedlamer noun: a young harp seal after its second moult.

Noun

bedlamer (plural bedlamers)

  1. (Canada) A young harp seal after its second moult.

Forms of bedlamer

pluralbedlamers

Origin of bedlamer

Borrowed from French bête de la mer. The construction and spelling of the loanword was evidently influenced by Bedlam and bedlam, suggesting reanalysis as bedlam + -er. This seems all the more plausible given that these seals are sometimes quite vocal, doing a lot of barking, yelling, and mumbling.

Words formed from bedlamer

  • Bedlamer Head

Questions about bedlamer

What does bedlamer mean?
Bedlamer means a young harp seal after its second moult.
What part of speech is bedlamer?
Bedlamer is a noun.
How do you pronounce bedlamer?
Bedlamer is pronounced /ˈbɛdləmɚ/ (Canada).
What is the plural of bedlamer?
The plural of bedlamer is bedlamers.

Words near bedlamer in the dictionary

  1. bedknob
  2. bedknobs
  3. bedlam
  4. Bedlam beggar
  5. Bedlam beggars
  6. bedlamer
  7. bedlamers
  8. bedlamic
  9. bedlamish
  10. bedlamism
  11. bedlamisms

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: bedlamer (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “bedlamer.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/bedlamer. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.