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bedworthy

bedworthy adjective: sexually attractive.

Adjective

bedworthy (comparative more bedworthy, superlative most bedworthy)

  1. (slang) Sexually attractive.
    • Vandeuvres was undressing her with his eyes. 'Yes, she's bedworthy all right', he said, 'but I'm a bit suspicious of her thighs. Will you take a bet, she's got lousy thighs?'1880, Émile Zola, translated by Douglas Parmée, Nana
    • I had fleetingly noticed, had not perhaps noticed enough, how attractive, bedworthy, she looked with her fair hair down around her shoulders.1988, Muriel Spark, A far cry from Kensington

Forms of bedworthy

comparativemore bedworthy
superlativemost bedworthy

Origin of bedworthy

From bed + -worthy.

Questions about bedworthy

What does bedworthy mean?
Bedworthy means sexually attractive.
What part of speech is bedworthy?
Bedworthy is an adjective.

Words near bedworthy in the dictionary

  1. bedwettingly
  2. bedwettings
  3. bedwise
  4. bedwork
  5. Bedworth
  6. bedworthy
  7. Bedwyn
  8. bedyde
  9. bedye
  10. bedyed
  11. bedyeing

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