bedrel

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noun

A bedridden person; a helpless cripple.

OriginEnglish bed ← Middle English bed ← Old English bedd →
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Meanings

nounbedrel (plural bedrels)

plural bedrels

  1. UKdialectalA bedridden person; a helpless cripple.
adjectivebedrel (comparative more bedrel, superlative most bedrel)

comparative more bedrel · superlative most bedrel

  1. obsoleterareBedridden.

    there is no man so crazed, bedrell, or decrepit, so long as he remembers Methusalem, but thinkes he may yet live twentie yeares.

    , Folio Society, 2006, vol.1, p.65

Origin

  1. Proto-Germanic*badją
  2. Proto-West Germanic*badi
  3. Old Englishbedd
  4. Middle Englishbed
  5. Englishbed
  6. Englishbedrel

From bed + -rel.

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APA

bedrel. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bedrel

MLA

“bedrel.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bedrel. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “bedrel,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bedrel.

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