bedmaker

someone who manufactures beds

Noun

  1. someone who manufactures beds
  2. A bedder.
    • Bedmakers have to be comic and dishonest. It is expected of them. In a picture of university life it is their only function. - 1907, E.M. Forster, The Longest Journey, Part I, I [Uniform ed., p. 17]

Origin

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”).

Forms

bedmakers

Derived

bedder