Crossword clues for bedder
The Collaborative International Dictionary
bedder \bed"der\ n. an ornamental plant suitable for planting in a flowerbed.
Syn: bedding plant.
Wiktionary
n. 1 agent noun of bed; one who beds. 2 (context British English) A bedmaker; a maid.
WordNet
n. an ornamental plant suitable for planting in a flowerbed [syn: bedding plant]
Wikipedia
The term "bedder" is short for "bedmaker" and is a housekeeper in a college of the University of Cambridge and the University of Durham. The equivalent at the University of Oxford is known as a "scout". The equivalent at Trinity College, Dublin was known as a "skip", until the practice was abandoned in the early 1970s. There is no equivalent at the majority of other universities.
Usage examples of "bedder".
Taken in her particulars, and Zipser couldn’t think of any other way of taking her, the bedder was quite remarkably without attractions.
I have just had a visit from a young man who claims to be under some compulsion to sleep with his bedder.
When he finally accepted that his ears were not betraying him and that Zipser was in fact confessing to being attracted by his bedder, he had muttered something to the effect that the Chaplain would expect him for tea that afternoon and that, failing that, a good psychiatrist might help.
He tried Hermitsch on Fall Out & the Andaman Islanders and even Sterilization, Vasectomy and Abortion by Allard, but these holy writs all failed against the pervasive fantasy of the bedder.
He went to bed early having set the alarm clock for seven o’clock so as to be up and out before the bedder arrived – and before he fell asleep realized that he had forgotten an important detail.
As he thrust himself into the red inferno of Mrs Biggs’s raincoat, the bedder hunched herself and then heaved.
The need for a girl his own age to take his body off the bedder had become imperative.
Zipser could think of nothing worse than being sent down from Porterhouse for “the attempted rape of a bedder”.
The bedder’s fancy ignored the weather and lumbered to thoughts of love.
He seemed to find the fact that the boy was having an affair with his bedder proof that Zipser was insane.
Since his arrival the College has seen the deaths of one undergraduate, a bedder, the total destruction of a building classified as a national monument, charges of peculation and a scandal involving the admission of unqualified candidates, the sacking of Skullion and now, to cap it all, the assumption of dictatorial powers by the Master.
Farbach added, with magnificent calmness, "my trade iss larchly owitside off Canaan, und it iss bedder dot here der laws shoult be enforced der same fer all.
I was to observe and monitor your electronic entertainment to bedder learn your language.
There are only a dozen names for Wednesday, before hers… Miss Trevor… An early bedder, an old lady who always comes home before ten o’clock.
My God, Bedders, I must have put on a hell of a lot of weight to manage that!