Bedful
noun
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Definitions
Noun
- 1 The amount that can fit in a bed.
"He and Bob in one low bed and Tom and Joe in the other—one bedful used to be jealous of the other bedful if it had more snow on its blue-and-white coverlet in the morning."
- 2 A sexual encounter.
"Nothing but an opium dream could transform the bare walls and the dirty cotton curtains into an Oriental palace with silken drapes and bedfuls of lovely daughters of the East."
Example
More examples"He and Bob in one low bed and Tom and Joe in the other—one bedful used to be jealous of the other bedful if it had more snow on its blue-and-white coverlet in the morning."
Etymology
From bed + -ful.
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