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bedworthy

adj

Etymology

From bed + -worthy.

  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 bedworthy — “bed + worthy”

Definitions

  1. Sexually attractive.

    • Vandeuvres was undressing her with his eyes. 'Yes, she's bedworthy all right', he said, 'but I'm a bit suspicious of her thighs. Will you take a bet, she's got lousy thighs?'
    • I had fleetingly noticed, had not perhaps noticed enough, how attractive, bedworthy, she looked with her fair hair down around her shoulders.

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