bedmaker

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noun

someone who manufactures beds

OriginMiddle English bedmaker →
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Meanings

nounbedmaker (plural bedmakers)

plural bedmakers

  1. someone who manufactures beds
  2. formalhistoricalCambridge UniversityA 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]

Origin

  1. Middle Englishbedmaker
  2. Englishbedmaker

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”).

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APA

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MLA

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Chicago

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