bedder

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Etymology[edit]

bed +‎ -er

Noun[edit]

bedder (plural bedders)

  1. Agent noun of bed; one who beds.
  2. (in combination, informal) A property with a specified number of bedrooms.
    • 2006, Liz Hodgkinson, The Complete Guide to Renovating and Improving Your Property:
      From looking round, I realized that the gap in the market was for smart one-bedders in central locations.
  3. (Cambridge University slang) Contraction of bedmaker; a housekeeper or domestic cleaner (historically a domestic servant), generally female, employed by one of the constituent colleges of Cambridge University to clean rooms; generally equivalent to a modern scout at Oxford University.[1][2]
    Coordinate terms: scout, porter, gyp

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Bedders, Bulldogs and Bedells: A Cambridge Glossary" By Frank Stubbings,Cambridge University Press,1995
  2. ^ "Upstairs, downstairs: college servants 1919-1939", http://www.kings.cam.ac.uk/archive-centre/archive-month/may-2010.html

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