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”).

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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