/bed-en-español

/bed-en-español-meaning-etymology

-) Noun. 

-) Pronunciation: bɛd. 

-) Etymology: from Old English bedd, bed.

-) It is dated from the end of 900.

-) 1. An article of furniture to sleep, rest, play or to work upon it, as porno actors and prostitutes do. 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.

-) Synonym: couch. 

-) Translation: French lit; Spanish cama; Italian letto.

He was propped up in the bed by pillows. 

E. Poe… The facts… 1845

Again she was fucked on the bed.

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.”

-) 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. 

Wilde… Dorian Gray… 1890

-) 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).

Your master's bed is made […] lock the chamber door. 

J. Swift… The works… 1731

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

-) 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

-) Prepositional phrases with “bed”: in, to, into, out of bed.

… he had not retired to bed during the whole of the preceding night. 

E. Poe… The Assignation… 1834

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. 

E. Poe… The Fall… 1839

I knew my victim's habit of reading in bed. 

E. Poe… The Imp… 1845

I got out of bed and stood looking at her thighs and cunt.

Walter… My Secret Life… 1888

I'm going to get into bed.

Walter… My Secret Life… 1888

-) 2. Metaphor: the surface or something considered as a base on which anything is. In particular: -) a. A level or smooth piece of ground in a garden, usually somewhat raised, for the better cultivation of the plants. -) b. The bottom of a lake or sea, or of the channel of a river or stream. -) 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.

We are below the river's bed. 

E. Poe… The cask… 1846

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. 

E. Poe… Eleonora… 1842

-) Words derived 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.