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  • noun The amount that can fit in a bed.

Etymologies

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bed +‎ -ful

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Examples

  • As planned, they had seen Tom Jones, and Barbara had felt her body go T hot then moist during the famous scene where Tom and the girl manage to convey a bedful of sensual lascivious nuances into the act of eating a meal.

    Final Resting Place of The Pen 2010

  • I pictured Zo and me as little kids, playing house, Mommy and Daddy to a bedful of dolls less advanced but just as creepy as this one.

    Crashed ROBIN WASSERMAN 2009

  • I pictured Zo and me as little kids, playing house, Mommy and Daddy to a bedful of dolls less advanced but just as creepy as this one.

    Crashed ROBIN WASSERMAN 2009

  • I have an old grim sire to my husband, as bald as a coot, as little and as unable as a child, a bedful of bones, he keeps all the doors barred and locked upon me, woe is me, what shall I do?

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Your bleeding highness with a bedful of bare bibbis His face twitched as a bright idea occurred to him.

    Sharpe's Fortress Cornwell, Bernard 1999

  • "It's all very well singing about ploughing the fields and scattering, but that damned dog of Creggan's has scattered a bedful of tulips at the end of my lawn."

    The Fifth Rapunzel Gill, B. M. 1991

  • I reached the appointed spot and stood there waiting, admiring the brilliant scarlet of the long bedful of flowers which lined the railing between horse-walk and lawn.

    In The Frame Francis, Dick 1976

  • And there the four of them slept soundly till the morning - Miranda cuddled in Barney's neck and Loony on Snubby's feet - what a bedful!

    The Rockingdown Mystery Blyton, Enid, 1898?-1968 1949

  • Of a surety it would bless me with a bedful of churches and crucifixions, duly adumbrated. "

    Citation and Examination of William Shakspeare, Euseby Treen, Joseph Carnaby, and Silas Gough, Clerk Walter Savage Landor 1819

  • Theresa May's leopard-print shoes, Jon Snow's refusal to wear a poppy, Prince Andrew's bedful of teddy bears, Nick Clegg's arithmetic (he counted up the women all right but got the weekly pension wrong by two thirds, at 30 - wait for it -

    A New Dark Age Is Dawning 2008

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