Bedwear vs Bedear - What's the difference?
bedwear | bedear |
Clothing to be worn in bed.
* 1983 , Molly Keane, Good Behaviour
* 2008 , Ken Follett, Eye of the Needle
* 2011 , Calvin J. Boal, Last Run of the Whisperer (page 331)
To make or hold dear; endear.
*1872 , Augusta Webster, The auspicious day :
To say "dear" to; address as "dear".
*1862 , Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot, The National review :
*1922 , Hearst's international:
As a noun bedwear
is clothing to be worn in bed.As a verb bedear is
to make or hold dear; endear.bedwear
English
Noun
(-)- In the schoolroom she would sit alone in a loving glow as frail clouds of wool grew through her clever fingers into wraps and misty bedwear for Lady Grizel's birthday or Christmas presents.
- Better to be thought chronically shy than to have landladies with duplicate keys sneaking in at night in their bedwear .
- She appeared to be wearing a laced white nightgown as the hour of the evening was growing late, with an overcoat over to hide her bedwear .
Synonyms
* nightwear * sleepwearbedear
English
Verb
(en verb)- I have been too nice. The coaxing minx, she loves me, cannot hide it, Has but half heart to try. Coy as she is, Her looks are kisses and her voice bedears me, Though she but say "Good day, sir."
- The "dears" had such a hard time of it, that they ended by keeping purposely away from the court-receptions, while, on the other hand, the legion of insignificant people with the von to their name commenced bedearing each other to their hearts content.
- Highland had fallen into the habit of casually bedearing Mary when there were people about. "Well, dear," he said, "how about it?" "Oh," she said, "I think it's a lovely place, and so clean and tidy, and the sea, and all — I'd love to stay."