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bedfellow|ˈbɛdˌfɛləʊ|
For forms see bed and fellow.
1. One who shares a bed with another; also fig.
1478Sir J. Paston Lett. III. 235 [He] hathe entryd the maner of Scolton uppon your bedffelawe Conyerse. 1571R. Ascham Scholem. (1863) 96 John Whitneye, a yong jentleman, was my bedfeloe. 1610Shakes. Temp. ii. ii. 42 Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellowes. 1711Addison Spect. No. 90 ⁋7 My Bed-fellows left me about an Hour before Day. 1834J. Wilson Noct. Ambr. xxxv. Wks. 1864 IV. 102 Tickler. I request to have Fang for my bed fellow.
†2. spec. A husband or wife; a concubine. Obs.
1490Plumpton Corr. 89 My simple bedfelow, your bedewoman and servant..recomendeth hir unto your mastership. 1564P. Moore Hope Health Ep. Ded. 9 Vnto your worship, and to my good Ladie your bedfellowe. 1579Fulke Ref. Rastel 725 Haue not some Popish Priestes such seruants and bedfellowes also? 1684Contempl. State Man i. vi. (1699) 61 Altho' she had a great Dowry, none would covet such a Bed-fellow. |