Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A bedmate.
- noun One that is closely associated or allied with another.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who shares a bed with another.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who lies with another in the same bed; a person who shares one's couch.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One with whom one shares a bed.
- noun An associate, often an otherwise improbable one.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a person with whom you share a bed
- noun a temporary associate
Etymologies
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Examples
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The next morning when the maid came in to make the fire, we woke up face to face in the same bed, and then she told me that her name was Belle Boyd, and I knew for the first time that my bedfellow was the South's famous female spy.
A Virginia girl in the Civil War, 1861-1865, by ed. Myrta Lockett Avary 1903
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Apple has found a strange 'bedfellow' in its quest to push HTML5 over Adobe's Flash: the
WN.com - Articles related to Georgia ban on texting while driving takes affect 2010
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Apple has found a strange 'bedfellow' in its quest to push HTML5 over Adobe's Flash: the
WN.com - Articles related to Georgia ban on texting while driving takes affect 2010
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Apple has found a strange 'bedfellow' in its quest to push HTML5 over Adobe's Flash: the movie someday?
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Apple has found a strange 'bedfellow' in its quest to push HTML5 over Adobe's Flash: the
WN.com - Articles related to Georgia ban on texting while driving takes affect 2010
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When Mark Twain, as he lay awake imagining himself a millionaire, told his bedfellow that the first thing he was going to do with his money was to build a castle in San Francisco, he was expressing succinctly the close relationship between Washoe and the metropolis of the West.
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DUNE propounded the shocking idea that religion is a dangerous bedfellow for politics, and that even a messiah cannot control what comes of his messianic mission.
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Remember, he is working with the President and an odd bedfellow in Rev. Sharpton to raise our educational performance, and his candidness is always refreshing.
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With their early call to action so widely ignored, it was somewhat ironic that The New York Times found such a strange bedfellow in Michele Bachmann who, in the middle of the televised Tea Party debate, blasted her Republican opponent Rick Perry for signing an executive order in Texas to mandate the controversial vaccine for all girls in his state.
Shelley Ross: What the Tea Party -- and Everyone Else -- Missed on Gardasil® Shelley Ross 2011
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The organization's allies demonized the charity, attempting to depict the nation's most prominent anti-breast cancer organization as a bedfellow of religious extremists.
Planned Parenthood's Hostages Robert P. George 2012
dontcry commented on the word bedfellow
MY favorite type of bed companion!
December 31, 2008
hernesheir commented on the word bedfellow
Frequently described as "strange".
December 6, 2010
Gammerstang commented on the word bedfellow
(noun) - (1) The simplicity of ancient manners made it common for men, even of the highest rank, to sleep together; and the term bedfellow implied great intimacy. Lord Scroop is said to have been bedfellow to Henry V as found in Shakespeare's Henry V:
Nay, but the man was his bedfellow,
Whom he hath cloy'd and grac'd with kingly favours.
After the battle of Dreux, in 1562, the prince of Condé slept in the same bed with the duke of Guise, an anecdote frequently cited to show the magnanimity of the latter, who slept soundly, though so near his greatest enemy, then his prisoner. Letters from noblemen to each other often began with the appellation bedfellow.
--Robert Nares' Glossary of the Works of English Authors, 1859
(2) This unseemly custom continued common till the middle of the last century.
--Rev. T.F. Thiselton-Dyer's Folk-Lore of Shakespeare, 1884
Before he became president in 1860, Abraham Lincoln was known to have often slept with his best friend, Joshua Speed, while the two were traveling.
January 16, 2018