bedwise
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adverb
[edit]bedwise (not comparable)
- With regard to a bed or beds; often in allusion to sex.
- 1997, R[onald] Chetwynd-Hayes, “Rudolph”, in Stephen Jones, editor, The Mammoth Book of Dracula: Vampire Tales for the New Millennium, London: Robinson Publishing, →ISBN, page 302:
- I mean, every woman there from sixteen to eighty was giving him the what-about-it-sign and I — let's be honest — had nothing bedwise to offer.
- 1999, Carol Smith, Family Reunion, New York, N.Y.: Mysterious Press, →ISBN, page 180:
- While the others got sorted out bedwise, Madeleine and Élodie lingered on in the kitchen and helped Clemency clear up the remains of the meal.
- 2002, Anne Weale [pseudonym; Jay Blakeney], A Spanish Honeymoon, Richmond: Mills & Boon, →ISBN, page 277:
- 'What I didn't...still don't understand is why you held off from trying me out, bedwise, before taking me on as a wife,' said Liz. 'If you had been a shy man, awkward with women, it might have made sense. But for Valdecarrasca's notorious womaniser to hold back seemed very peculiar.'
- 2009, Megan Abbott, Bury Me Deep, Waterville, M.E.: Thorndike Press, →ISBN, page 300:
- She sitting here behind a crossbar and what of Joe Lanigan, sprawling bedwise with his nurse-whore?