bedwetter
noun
a person, usually a child, who urinates while sleeping, especially habitually.
bed-wetter
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a variation of
bedwetter.
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a word derived from
bed-wetting.
bed-wettingnounthe act or habit of involuntarily urinating in bed
Example Sentences
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But by the time Mary Jane became a bed-wetter, I’m like, “I think we covered everything, guys.”
From New York Times ● May 11, 2018
Q. Hubby’s Secret: My husband is a lifelong bed-wetter.
From Slate ● Aug. 12, 2014
In other words, it is not about emotional problems, or mistakes a parent made during potty training, or laziness, which some still attribute to the bed-wetter himself.
From New York Times ● Jan. 11, 2010
The fear has turned one 17-year-old boy into a bed-wetter who suffers from night terrors, she said, adding, “He is so afraid of being sent back.”
From Washington Post
He is into late childhood a bed-wetter, and steals and lies quasi-unconsciously.
From The Glands Regulating Personality by Louis Berman M.D.
