Meanings
bedward1
comparative more bedward · superlative most bedward · alternative bedwards
- Toward bed.
Bedward2
- slanglifestyleThe ship of characters Bella Swan and Edward Cullen from the Twilight series.
My problems with the series go further than Bedward's "relationship."
2010, Gabrielle Abutom, "'Twilight' is a sick, twisted series", Daily Titan (California State University, Fullerton), 11 October 2010, page 42 more examples
When Bedward's desire to touch each other becomes unbearable, the overwhelming sexual tension is handily dispersed into a far less exciting bodily necessity: hunger.
2013 February 12, Poppy Bullard, “In Defence of Twilight, sort of”, in Nouse, University of York, page M5Take, for example, Bedward: Edward Cullen and Bella Swan from Stephanie Meyer's Twilight; […]
2016, Taylor Scheibe, "Plot Twist", Echo (Columbia College Chicago), May 2016, page 35
Origin
bedward · adverb
- Proto-Germanic*badją
- Proto-West Germanic*badi
- Old Englishbedd
- Middle Englishbed
- Englishbed
- Proto-Indo-European*wert-
- Proto-Germanic*wardaz
- Englishbedward
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