单词 | bed-head |
释义 | bed-headn.ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > bed > bedding > [noun] > pillow or bolster pilloweOE wangerc900 bolsterOE pilliverOE cod1392 transom1459 bed-head1483 hacoyte?1541 cod-pillow1569 tye1615 heading1847 weeping willow1880 1483 Cath. Angl. 25 Bedhede, cubitale. 2. The upper end of a bed. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > bed > parts of bed > [noun] > head bed-headc1386 c1386 G. Chaucer Prol. 293 For hym was leuere haue at his bed hede [v.r. beddes hede] Twenty bookes clad in blak or rede. 1883 Sir F. Pollock in Fortn. Rev. 1 Oct. 536 A Book..such as every one would like to have at his bed-head. Draft additions December 2005 slang (originally U.S.). The state or condition of having untidy hair, such as results from lying in bed; hair in this state. In quot. 1988: a person with hair in this state. ΚΠ 1988 Washington Post 31 Jan. (Mag.) 8/1 Bed head, a person who looks like he just woke up. 1990 Los Angeles Times (Nexis) 15 June e6/1 I still have bed head, my hair's going every which direction. 1998 H. M. Malton Down in Dumps xxii. 204 I..stuck my head under the tap, trying to erase the Don King bed-head I'd woken up with. 2002 Observer 1 Dec. (Sport Monthly Suppl.) 43/2 His pageboy locks generally scruffed into a bedhead. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online September 2020). > as lemmasbed-head bed-head n. ΚΠ 1579 W. Fulke Confut. Treat. N. Sander in D. Heskins Ouerthrowne 649 He worshipped toward the bedshead. < n.c1386 as lemmas |
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