bedmaker

== English == === Etymology === From Middle English bedmaker, bedmakere, equivalent to bed +‎ maker. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Bäädmoaker (“bedmaker”), West Frisian bêdmakker (“bedmaker”), Dutch beddenmaker (“bedmaker”), German Bettmacher (“bedmaker”). === Pronunciation === === Noun === bedmaker (plural bedmakers) someone who manufactures beds (Cambridge University, formal or historical) A bedder. 1907, E.M. Forster, The Longest Journey, Part I, I [Uniform ed., p. 17]: Bedmakers have to be comic and dishonest. It is expected of them. In a picture of university life it is their only function. ==== Derived terms ==== bedder === Anagrams === embarked