bed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɛd/
note: African-American Vernacular, some speakers
ipa: [beː]
ipa: /bed/
rhymes: -ɛd
Forms: form: beds
form: bedding
form: bedded
form: bedded
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English bed, bedde, from Old English bedd, from Proto-West Germanic *badi, from Proto-Germanic *badją (“resting-place, plot of ground”).
Cognates
Cognate with North Frisian baad, beed, Saterland Frisian Bääd, West Frisian bêd, Low German Bedd, Dutch bed, German Bett, Swedish bädd, Icelandic beður, all meaning “bed”.
further possible etymology and cognates
The Proto-Germanic term may in turn be from Proto-Indo-European *bʰedʰ- (“to dig”) with various theories explaining the development in meaning. If it is, the term is also cognate with Ancient Greek βοθυρος (bothuros, “pit”), Latin fossa (“ditch”), Latvian bedre (“hole”), Welsh bedd (“grave”), Breton bez (“grave”); and probably also Russian бодать (bodatʹ, “to butt, gore”).
Senses: examples: text: I usually listen to music before I bed.
glosses: Senses relating to a bed as a place for resting or sleeping.
To go to bed; to put oneself to sleep.
examples: text: For she was not only publicly contracted, but stated as a bride, and solemnly bedded, and after she was laid, there came in Maximilian's ambassador with letters of procuration
ref: 1622, Francis, Lord Verulam, Viscount St. Alban [i.e. Francis Bacon], The Historie of the Raigne of King Henry the Seventh, […], London: […] W[illiam] Stansby for Matthew Lownes, and William Barret, →OCLC:
glosses: Senses relating to a bed as a place for resting or sleeping.
To place in a bed.
glosses: Senses relating to a bed as a place for resting or sleeping.
To furnish with a bed or bedding.
examples: text: And he who lies with another Man's Wife after she is married, even before her Husband had bedded with her, is guilty of Adultery, […]
ref: 1730, William Forbes, The Institutes of the Law of Scotland, page 121:
glosses: Senses relating to a bed as a place for resting or sleeping.
To have sex (with).
synonyms: word: coitize
word: go to bed with
word: sleep with
word: Formal terms
word: bed
word: coit
word: coitize
word: dight
word: enjoy
word: feague
word: go in unto
word: go to bed with
word: have
word: know
word: lie by
word: lie with
word: love
word: mount
word: occupy
word: penetrate
word: season
word: seduce
word: sleep with
word: take
word: Any of Thesaurus:copulate + "with"
word: Informal and slang terms
word: ball
word: bang
word: bauf
word: beep
word: be with
word: bone
word: boff
word: boink
word: bonk
word: boom-boom
word: dick
word: diddle
word: dig out
word: do
word: doink
word: drill
word: eff
word: expletive deleted
word: feck
word: fill
word: frack
word: frak
word: frick
word: frig
word: fuck
word: get into someone's pants
word: get over on
word: get up in
word: give someone one
word: give someone the time
word: go with
word: have one's way with
word: have one's wicked way with
word: hit
word: hump
word: jape
word: jump
word: jump someone's bones
word: knob
word: knock
word: knock off
word: know someone in the biblical sense
word: lay
word: love up
word: make
word: nail
word: plough
word: plug
word: poke
word: pork
word: pound
word: prig
word: pump
word: ream
word: rock
word: roger
word: root
word: run through
word: rut
word: sard
word: schlong
word: screw
word: see to
word: service
word: shaft
word: shag
word: shelve
word: slay
word: slip it to
word: smash
word: smush
word: stallionize
word: swive
word: tap
word: tup
word: wap
topics: hobbies
hunting
lifestyle
glosses: Senses relating to a bed as a place for resting or sleeping.
Of large game animals: to be at rest.
examples: text: 1810/1835, William Wordsworth, Guide to the Lakes
Among all chains or clusters of mountains where large bodies of still water are bedded.
text: But I must warn you that chipboard floors are always likely to squeak. The material is still being used in new-builds, but developers now use adhesive to bed and joint it, rather than screws or nails. I suspect the adhesive will eventually embrittle and crack, resulting in the same squeaking problems as before.
ref: 2014 August 17, Jeff Howell, “Home improvements: Repairing and replacing floorboards [print version: Never buy anything from a salesman, 16 August 2014, p. P7]”, in The Daily Telegraph (Property):
glosses: Senses relating to a bed as a place or layer on which something else rests or is laid.
To lay or put in any hollow place, or place of rest and security, surrounded or enclosed; to embed.
glosses: Senses relating to a bed as a place or layer on which something else rests or is laid.
To set in a soft matrix, as paving stones in sand, or tiles in cement.
glosses: Senses relating to a bed as a place or layer on which something else rests or is laid.
To set out (plants) in a garden bed.
glosses: Senses relating to a bed as a place or layer on which something else rests or is laid.
To dress or prepare the surface of (stone) so it can serve as a bed.
examples: text: Your bedded hair like life in excrements
ref: c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iv]:
glosses: Senses relating to a bed as a place or layer on which something else rests or is laid.
To lay flat; to lay in order; to place in a horizontal or recumbent position.
glosses: Senses relating to a bed as a place or layer on which something else rests or is laid.
To settle, as machinery.
Derived terms: bed down
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