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breakfasting in bed

breakfasting in bed is the present participle and gerund of breakfast in bed.

Meaning of breakfast in bed

Verb

breakfast in bed (third-person singular simple present breakfasts in bed, present participle breakfasting in bed, simple past and past participle breakfasted in bed)

  1. (intransitive) To eat one's breakfast while in bed.
    • Not that I "go in" for breakfasting in bed. It is a lazy, ignoble habit. A man ought to divide his life fairly between bed and board.1876, Charles James Dunphie, The Splendid Advantages of Being a Woman, page 67

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Questions about breakfasting in bed

What is breakfasting in bed the present participle and gerund of?
Breakfasting in bed is the present participle and gerund of breakfast in bed.

Words near breakfasting in bed in the dictionary

  1. breakfasted
  2. breakfasted in bed
  3. breakfaster
  4. breakfasters
  5. breakfasting
  6. breakfasting in bed
  7. breakfastings
  8. breakfastless
  9. breakfastlessness
  10. breakfastlike
  11. breakfastmate

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Adapted from Wiktionary: breakfasting in bed (page history and authors); breakfast in bed (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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