beddest English
Verb
(head)
(archaic) (bed)
bed English
Noun
( en noun)
A piece of furniture, usually flat and soft, for resting or sleeping on.
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# A prepared spot to spend the night in.
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# (lb) One's place of sleep or rest.
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# Sleep; rest; getting to sleep.
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# The time for going to sleep or resting in bed; bedtime.
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# (lb) Time spent in a bed.
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# (lb) Marriage.
#* (1609-1674)
- George, the eldest son of his second bed .
# Sexual activity.
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A place, or flat surface or layer, on which something else rests or is laid.
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# The bottom of a lake or other body of water.
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# An area where a large number of oysters, mussels, or other sessile shellfish is found.
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# A garden plot.
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- Breezes blowing from beds of iris quickened her breath with their perfume; she saw the tufted lilacs sway in the wind, and the streamers of mauve-tinted wistaria swinging, all a-glisten with golden bees; she saw a crimson cardinal winging through the foliage, and amorous tanagers flashing like scarlet flames athwart the pines.
# A foundation or supporting surface formed of a fluid.
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# The superficial earthwork, or ballast, of a railroad.
# The platform of a truck, trailer, railcar, or other vehicle that supports the load to be hauled.
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# A shaped piece of timber to hold a cask clear of a ship’s floor; a pallet.
# The flat part of the press, on which the form is laid.
# A piece of music, normally instrumental, over which a radio DJ talks.
# (lb) Any of the sections of a dartboard with a point value, delimited by a wire.
(lb) A layer or surface.
# A deposit of ore, coal, etc.
# (lb) the smallest division of a geologic formation or stratigraphic rock series marked by well-defined divisional planes (bedding planes) separating it from layers above and below.
# (lb) The horizontal surface of a building stone.
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# (lb) The lower surface of a brick, slate, or tile.
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# (lb) A course of stone or brick in a wall.
Usage notes
Sense 1. To prepare a bed is usually to "make" the bed , or (qualifier) to "spread" the bed, the verb spread probably having been developed from bedspread.
Like many nouns denoting places where people spend time, (term) requires no article after certain prepositions: hence , and so on. The forms (term), etc. do exist, but tend to imply mere presence in the bed, without it being for the purpose of sleep.
See also
Derived terms
* air bed/airbed
* alveolar bed
* apple-pie bed
* bed and breakfast
* bed blocker
* bedbound
* bedbug
* bedchamber
* bed check
* bedclothes
* bed cover
* bedder
* bedding
* bedfast
* bedfellow
* bed ground
* bed hair
* bed head
* bed-hop
* bed jacket
* bed linen
* bed load
* bedload
* bedmate
* bed-mould
* bed of justice
* bed of pelts
* bed of roses
* bedpan
* bedpost
* bed push
* bedridden
* bedroom
* bed sheet, bedsheet
* bedside
* bedspread
* bedspring
* bedstead
* bed-sitter, bedsitter
* bed tea
* bed trick
* breakfast in bed
* bunk bed
* camp bed
* canopy bed
* capillary bed
* coal bed
* creek bed
* day bed
* death bed/deathbed
* divan bed
* double bed
* feather bed/featherbed
* filter bed
* flatbed
* flower bed, flowerbed
* four-poster bed
* French bed
* gatch bed
* get up on the wrong side of the bed
* go to bed
* go to bed with
* Hollywood bed
* hospital bed
* hot bed/hotbed
* in bed
* interbedded
* key bed
* make one's bed and lie in it
* make the bed
* marker bed
* Murphy bed
* nail bed/nailbed
* orthopedic bed
* out of bed
* oyster bed
* pencil-post bed
* pig bed
* pissy bed
* plank bed
* platform bed (see platform)
* procrustean bed
* put to bed
* red under the bed
* river bed
* roller bed
* sea bed
* shit the bed
* single bed
* sleigh bed
* sofa bed/sofa-bed
* sunbed
* take to one's bed
* tanning bed
* test bed
* truckle bed
* trundle bed
* twin bed
* wake up on the wrong side of the bed
* water bed, waterbed
* wet the bed
* you make the bed you lie in
Verb
( bedd)
Senses relating to a bed as a place for resting or sleeping.
# To go to a bed. (rfex)
# To place in a bed.
- (Francis Bacon)
# To put oneself to sleep. (rfex)
# To furnish with a bed or bedding.
# (slang) To have sexual intercourse with.
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.
#* Wordsworth:
- Among all chains or clusters of mountains where large bodies of still water are bedded .
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# To set in a soft matrix, as paving stones in sand, or tiles in cement.
# To set out (plants) in a garden bed.
# To dress or prepare the surface of (stone) so it can serve as a bed.
# To lay flat; to lay in order; to place in a horizontal or recumbent position.
#* Shakespeare:
- bedded hair
# To settle, as machinery.
Derived terms
* bed down
* embed
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baddest English
Adjective
(head)
(nonstandard) (bad)
bad Etymology 1
From (etyl) bad, ).
Adjective
Not good; unfavorable; negative.
* , chapter=10
, title= The Mirror and the Lamp
, passage=He looked round the poor room, at the distempered walls, and the bad engravings in meretricious frames, the crinkly paper and wax flowers on the chiffonier; and he thought of a room like Father Bryan's, with panelling, with cut glass, with tulips in silver pots, such a room as he had hoped to have for his own.}}
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Not suitable or fitting.
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Seemingly non-appropriate, in manners, etc.
* , chapter=7
, title= Mr. Pratt's Patients
, passage=“[…] if you call my duds a ‘livery’ again there'll be trouble. It's bad enough to go around togged out like a life saver on a drill day, but I can stand that 'cause I'm paid for it. What I won't stand is to have them togs called a livery. […]”}}
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Unhealthy.
- Lard is bad'''' for you. Smoking is '''bad''' for you, too. Grapes are '''bad for dogs but not for humans.
Tricky; stressful; unpleasant.
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Evil; wicked.
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Faulty; not functional.
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(of food) , rotten, overripe.
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(of breath) , foul.
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(informal) Bold and daring.
(of a, need or want) Severe, urgent.
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Usage notes
The comparative badder and superlative baddest are nonstandard.
Synonyms
* (not good) unfavorable, negative
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* (not suitable or fitting)
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* wicked, evil, vile, vicious
* (not functional) faulty
* (of food) rotten
* (of breath) malodorous, foul
* badass
* (of a need or want) severe, urgent, dire
(to be assigned)
* false
* spurious
* disgusting
* wrong
* corrupt
* ill
* base
* abandoned
* vicious
* abominable
* detestable
* deficient
* inferior
* lousy
* off
* poor
* punk
* substandard
* unacceptable
* ungodly
* unsatisfactory
* wanting
* wretched
* See also
Antonyms
* good
* right
* worthy
* competent
* benevolent
* true
* honest
* just
* sincere
* beneficial
* advantageous
* profitable
* virtuous
* reputable
* upright
* propitious
* choice
* excellent
* exceptional
* first-class
* first-rate
* premium
* prime
* superior
* adequate
* sufficient
See also
* astray
* base
* bum
* contemptible
* defective
* despicable
* dirty
* execrable
* faulty
* flawed
* inadequate
* insufficient
* lacking
* lesser
* low-grade
* mediocre
* par
* reprehensible
* scurrilous
* second-rate
* under
* unspeakable
* useless
* valueless
* villainous
* worthless
Derived terms
* bad actor
* bad apple
* bad beat
* bad blood
* bad boy
* bad breath
* bad check
* bad debt
* baddie
* bad egg
* bad ending
* bad eye
* bad fairy
* bad faith
* bad for you
* bad guy
* bad hair day
* bad hat
* bad iron
* bad joke
* bad language
* bad light
* bad lot
* bad luck
* bad man
* bad-mannered
* bad manners
* bad medicine
* bad money
* bad-mouth
* badness
* bad news
* bad off
* bad penny
* bad-tempered
* Bad Thing
* bad to the bone
* go bad
* not bad
* too bad
Adverb
Badly.
- I didn't do too bad in the last exam.
Noun
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(slang) error, mistake
- Sorry, my bad !
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(countable, uncountable, economics) An item (or kind of item) of merchandise with negative value; an unwanted good.
* {{quote-book, title=International Economics: Global Markets and Competition
, first=Henry
, last=Thompson
, pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=RQeYBbSlXLIC&lpg=PA97&dq=%22economic%20bad%22&pg=PA97 v=onepage&q=%22economic%20bad%22&f=false
, page=97
, year=2011
, edition=3rd
, publisher=World Scientific
, passage=Imports are an economic good but exports an economic bad . Exports must be produced but are enjoyed by foreign consumers.
}}
* {{quote-book, title=Economics
, author=William J. Boyes, Michael Melvin
, pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=LgaZaie5V1YC&lpg=PA4&dq=bads&pg=PA4 v=onepage&q=bads&f=false
, page=4
, year=2011
, edition=9th
, publisher=Cengage Learning
, passage=An economic bad' is anything that you would pay to get rid of. It is not so hard to think of examples of ' bads : pollution, garbage, and disease fit the description.
}}
Etymology 2
Probably identical to bad , etymology 1, above, especially in the sense "bold, daring".
Adjective
( badder)
(rfm-sense) (slang) Fantastic.
- You is (SIC) bad , man!
- Also Bek is "bad " at Madden.
Etymology 3
From (etyl) .
Verb
(head)
(archaic) .
Etymology 4
Verb
( badd)
(British, dialect, transitive) To shell (a walnut).
* 1876 , The Gloucester Journal'', Oct. 7, 1876, reported in William John Thomas, Doran (John), Henry Frederick Turle, Joseph Knight, Vernon Horace Rendall, Florence Hayllar, ''Notes and Queries , page 346
- A curious specimen of Gloucestershire dialect c»me out in an assault case heard by the Gloucester court magistrates on Saturday. One of the witnesses, speaking of what a girl was doing at the time the assault took place, said she was ' badding' ' walnuts in a pigstye. The word is peculiarly provincial : to ' '''bad''' ' walnuts is to strip away the husk. The walnut, too, is often called » 'bannut,' and hence the old Gloucestershire phrase, ' Come an' ' bad the bannuts.'
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