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bedwarmers

bedwarmers is the plural 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

Questions about bedwarmers

What is bedwarmers the plural of?
Bedwarmers is the plural of bedwarmer.

Words near bedwarmers in the dictionary

  1. bedwarf
  2. bedwarfed
  3. bedwarfing
  4. bedwarfs
  5. bedwarmer
  6. bedwarmers
  7. Bedwas
  8. Bedwas, Trethomas and Machen
  9. bedwear
  10. bedwell
  11. Bedwells

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bedwarmers (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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