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beddy

noun

Etymology

From bed + -y.

  1. derived from *bʰedʰh₂-✻ — “to dig”
  2. inherited from *badją✻ — “resting-place, plot of ground”
  3. inherited from *badi✻
  4. inherited from bedd
  5. inherited from bed
  6. suffixed as beddy — “bed + y”

Definitions

  1. bed

    • On to the back page, and Walter is walking the fields after school, clutching his teddy: 'I've made up another poem. Perhaps I'll be poet laureate one day!': Oh, sweet and cuddly darling Teddy, You keep me cosy in my beddy.

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA