bedmaker
nounEtymology 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”).
1
someone who manufactures beds
2
Formal, Historical A bedder.
Cambridge University
- 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]
- Derived terms
- bedder