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bedmaker

bedmaker noun: someone who manufactures beds.

Noun

bedmaker (plural bedmakers)

  1. someone who manufactures beds
  2. (formal, historical, Cambridge University) A bedder.
    • Bedmakers have to be comic and dishonest. It is expected of them. In a picture of university life it is their only function.1907, E.M. Forster, The Longest Journey, Part I, I [Uniform ed., p. 17]

Forms of bedmaker

pluralbedmakers

Origin of bedmaker

From Middle English bedmaker, bedmakere, equivalent to bed + maker. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Bäädmoaker (“bedmaker”), West Frisian bêdmakker (“bedmaker”), Dutch beddenmaker (“bedmaker”), German Bettmacher (“bedmaker”).

Words formed from bedmaker

Questions about bedmaker

What does bedmaker mean?
Bedmaker means someone who manufactures beds.
What part of speech is bedmaker?
Bedmaker is a noun.
What is the plural of bedmaker?
The plural of bedmaker is bedmakers.

Words near bedmaker in the dictionary

  1. Bedlingtonshire
  2. Bedlinog
  3. bedload
  4. bedloads
  5. bedlock
  6. bedmaker
  7. bedmakers
  8. bedmaking
  9. BEDMAS
  10. bedmate
  11. bedmates

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