Bedfellow

//ˈbɛdˌfɛloʊ// noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    One with whom one shares a bed.

    "Yong budding Virgin, faire, and freſh,& ſweet, / Whether away, or whether is thy aboade? / Happy the Parents of ſo faire a childe; / Happier the man whom fauourable ſtars / A lots thee for his louely bedfellow."

  2. 2
    a person with whom you share a bed wordnet
  3. 3
    An associate, often an otherwise improbable one. broadly

    "They say that "misfortune makes men acquainted with strange bedfellows". The old hereditary Whig Cabinet ministers must, no doubt, by this time have learned to feel themselves at home with strange neighbours at their elbows."

  4. 4
    a temporary associate wordnet

Etymology

From Middle English bedfelawe, equivalent to bed + fellow.

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