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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)
- someone who manufactures beds
- (Cambridge University, formal or historical) A bedder.
- 1907, E.M. Forster, The Longest Journey, Part I, I :
- Bedmakers have to be comic and dishonest. It is expected of them. In a picture of university life it is their only function.
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