Bed (bEd), noun.
Etymology: From Old English bedd, bed.
Plural: beds.
1. An article of furniture to sleep, rest, play or behave erotically on, in solitude or in company; to do anything easily, or to work upon it, as porno actors and prostitutes do.
Synonym: couch.
It consists for the most part of a sack or mattress, stuffed with something soft or springy, raised generally upon a ‘bed-stead’ or support, and covered with sheets, blankets, etc.
Equivalent nouns in Spanish: cama, Italian: letto, and French lit.
He was propped up in the bed by pillows.
Edgar Poe
We sat on the side of the bed kissing and feeling each other.
Walter (My Secret Life)
Again she was fucked on the bed, and now for the first time I had a look at her charms, her cunt unwashed.
Walter (My Secret Life, 1888)
It was the same bed I had fucked Pender on.
Walter (My Secret Life, 1888)
***It occurs often in elliptical constructions in which bed is to be understood for “the situation or position of being in bed, sleeping in bed, etc.”
Let me read a book before bed.
****Verbal phrases:
To bring to bed, a-bed, to take a bed, to bed: (generally passive) to be delivered of a child.
To go to bed: (a) to go to use the bed, specially to sleep. (b) Euphemism, to fuck (with someone).
I took pity on your tired servant and told him to go to bed, as he let me out.
O. Wilde (The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1890)
To keep one's bed: to remain in bed through sickness or other cause.
To make a bed: to order a bed after it has been used. (Spanish: hacer la cama; Italian: fare il letto and French: faire le lit.)
After breakfast my mother, who usually helped to make my bed and her own as well, called out to me.
Walter (My Secret Life, 1888)
Your master's bed is made […] lock the chamber door.
Jonathan Swift (Directions to the Servants)
To make up a bed: to prepare sleeping accommodation not previously available.
[He] made him up a bed of straw in the waggon, under the waggon-house.
The Annual Register 1758
We might […] make you up a bed on the office floor.
W. Westall (Birch Dene, 1889)
***Prepositional phrases with bed: in, to, into, out of bed.
I wetted her bum with my spittle, and rubbed my prick there till it was erect, then got gently out of bed and pushed my prick near to her face.
Walter (My Secret Life, 1888)
I got out of bed and stood looking at her thighs and cunt.
Walter (My Secret Life, 1888)
[…] he had not retired to bed during the whole of the preceding night.
Edgar Poe
It was, especially, upon retiring to bed late in the night of the seventh or eighth day after the placing of the lady Madeline within the donjon, that I experienced the full power of such feelings.
Edgar Poe
Is he confined to bed?
Edgar Poe
I knew my victim's habit of reading in bed.
Edgar Poe
When in bed, I called out for some one to put out the light, up came the governess and her sister.
Walter (My Secret Life, 1888)
[…] breathless I got back to my room and into bed.
Walter (My Secret Life, 1888)
I'm going to get into bed.
Walter (My Secret Life, 1888)
The more they said no, the quicker I undressed, and with prick lifting up my shirt, forced myself into bed, by the side of Mabel.
Walter (My Secret Life, 1888)
2. (Abusive acceptation) The resting-place or the sleeping-place of other animals than human ones.
****Figurative uses:
The surface or something considered as a base on which anything is; as:
a. A level or smooth piece of ground in a garden, usually somewhat raised, for the better cultivation of the plants.
Not a turnip or carrot can lie safe in their beds.
Swift (Country Post, 1727)
b. The bottom of a lake or sea, or of the channel of a river or stream.
We are below the river's bed.
Edgar Poe
The margin of the river, and of the many dazzling rivulets that glided through devious ways into its channel, as well as the spaces that extended from the margins away down into the depths of the streams until they reached the bed of pebbles at the bottom.
Edgar Poe
Donati explored the bed of the Adriatic.
Charles Lyell (Principles of Geology, 1830)
c. The surface of a stone or brick which is embedded in the mortar; the under side of a slate.
d. A layer or bed-like mass; a stratum; a horizontal course.
The pervious substance being thus enclosed between two impervious beds, one forming its floor and the other its roof.
Thomas Huxley (Physiography, 1878)
****Some objective combinations with bed (by means of a verbal noun or a pple.)
Bed-making: The making of a bed.
Rissa glanced up from bed~making, a quick frown on her face. ‘Oh, do buck up! […]’
M. Edwards (White Riders, 1950)
[Fitted Tailored Sheets] those with boxed ends simplify bed-making.
1963 Good Housek. Home Encycl.
****Combinations in which bed is in the manner of an adjective:
Bed-steps or bed steps: steps used to climb into a high bed.
Bed-pal, bed-mate, bed-place.
Retired to my standing bed-place in the cabin.
Frederick Marryat (Peter Simple)
Bed-book: a book suitable for reading in bed.
bed-chair: a chair for the sick, with a movable back, to support them while sitting up in bed.
bed-cord: a cord for stretching the sacking of a bed.
bed-irons: the iron framework for a bed.
bed-wetting, vbl. noun. Incontinence of urine while in bed; enuresis.
bed-wet, verb intr.
bed-wetter, noun. One who bed-wets.
[…] he can now tell us precisely why he bed-wetted or refused his food.
James Arthur Hadfield (Childhood and Adolescence)
The occurrence of bed-wetting in children is 15% at age 5 […]
H. Winter Griffith, Stephen Moore (Complete Guide to Symptoms, Illness & Surgery)
bed-hopping, jocose adjective. Habitually fucking with several persons; cyclically fucking with other fucker than the one fucked the previous time.
bed-hop (jocose back-formation of bed-hopping), verb intr. To fuck cyclically with other fucker than the previous one.
I bed-hopped with a wide variety of shallow, skinny, money-obsessed shoulder-padded Sharons.
Tim Lott (The Love Secrets of Don Juan)
Darcy had been the biggest lover boy of the department, his hobby had been bed-hopping from one stunning female to the next, until he'd met Kate.
Juliet Hebden (Pel the Patriarch)
A party for Peter's birthday includes hundreds of the "beautiful people," lots of champagne, all the latest technology, and much bed-hopping.
Diane Christine Raymond (Sexual Politics And Popular Culture)
bed-worthy (jocose adjetive): sexy.
bed-worthiness (jocose noun): sexiness.
[…] she was that kind of woman whom no man could please however much he worked and tried. Now she wanted to exchange her husband for the enlisted man of the village, a strong, bed-worthy man.
Vilhelm Moberg, Gustaf Lannestock (The Emigrants)
Breasts, as I was to learn later, was part of the private language of Shalott House; it was only applied to bed- worthy girls as guests.
John Braine (The Crying Game)
A fresh young girl of 18 would make an enjoyable and bed-worthy companion in the wilds of Africa. ...
Robert Cary (Countess Billie: the intriguing story of Fanny Pearson…)
Her bed-worthiness, as you put it, was never in question. But she had a few bitchy personality traits that I found objectionable.
Lillian Cheatham (Lady With a Past)
Or was he only concerned with bed-worthiness? Yet surely sex was better when there was mental communion as well as physical?
Roberta Leigh (Two-Faced Woman)
Bed-settee: a settee that can be converted into a bed.
Upstairs are two doubles and a two-roomed family suite with double bed and bed-settee.
Bed & Breakfast France - AA Publishing - 2007
bed-key: an iron tool for screwing and unscrewing the nuts and bolts of a bedstead.
[…] the bed-key - that's a sort of spanner, supplied for the adjusting of the springing.
Geraldine McCaughrean (A Pack of Lies)
Derivatives from Bed: Embed; bed (verb); bedding; beddable; bedder; bedful; bedgown; bed-post; bedside; bed-sitting-room; bedspread; bedridden, bedridden; bedstead; bedchamber, bed-clothes, bedfellow, bed-fellowship; bedroom, bedtime; abed.
