bed and breakfast
See also: Bed and Breakfast and bed-and-breakfast
English edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology 1 edit
From bed + breakfast, from having a bed for the night and breakfast in the morning on offer.
Noun edit
bed and breakfast (plural bed and breakfasts)
- A private home, guesthouse,small hotel etc. where guests are provided overnight accommodations and served breakfast but usually no other meals.
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Descendants edit
- → Danish: bed and breakfast c
- → Dutch: bed and breakfast n
- → French: bed and breakfast m
- → German: Bed and Breakfast n
- → Italian: bed and breakfast m
- → Japanese: ベッド・アンド・ブレックファスト (beddo ando burekkufasuto)
- → Spanish: bed and breakfast m
- → Swedish: bed-and-breakfast n
Translations edit
guesthouse providing breakfast
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Etymology 2 edit
From the notion that two shillings and six pence was once the price of lodging and breakfast in an inn.[1]
Noun edit
bed and breakfast (plural bed and breakfasts)
- (darts) A score of 26, made up of a score of 20, 1 and 5 in any order.
- Synonym: (initialism) B&B
- [1978 April, Dan Wheeler, Tom Jansing, “Mugs away!”, in All Hands, page 11:
- The language of darts is a combination of hybrid Cockney slang, metaphor and phrases that “stuck” for no apparent reason except they sounded good. […] Bed ’n’ breakfast—the number 26 when scored by hitting a 20, 5, and 1; comes from the price of a bed and breakfast in Olde England which was 2/6d, two shillings and sixpence.]
- 1984, Ivan L. Brackin, William Fitzgerald, Darts, page 72:
- This can be a lengthy procedure when neither team can do better than ‘bed and breakfast’ (26).
- (bingo) The number 26.
- [2008, Marcus Waring, The Deranged Book for Old Timers, page 68:
- Bingo calls that might leave the budding old-timer generally baffled include: […] 26 ― Bed and breakfast. Traditionally it would cost two and six – two shillings and six pence. Now its £180 a night but you get biscuits.]
References edit
- ^ Jonathon Green (2024) “bed and breakfast”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang
Finnish edit
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Noun edit
- Synonym of aamiaismajoitus (“bed and breakfast”).
Declension edit
Italian edit
Etymology edit
Unadapted borrowing from English bed and breakfast.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
bed and breakfast m (invariable)
- bed and breakfast (guesthouse)
- Synonym: (initialism) B&B
Spanish edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
bed and breakfast m (plural bedes and breakfasts or bed and breakfast)