bedmaker

English

Etymology

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”).

Noun

bedmaker (plural bedmakers)

1. someone who manufactures beds
2. (Cambridge University, formal or historical) A bedder.
   • 1907, E.M. Forster, The Longest Journey, Part I, I [Uniform ed., p. 17]:

     Bedmakers have to be comic and dishonest. It is expected of them. In a picture of university life it is their only function.

Derived terms

• bedder

Anagrams

• embarked