bedfellow
[bed-fel-oh]
noun
Also called bedmate. a person who shares one's bed.
an associate or collaborator, especially one who forms a temporary alliance for reasons of expediency: Politics makes strange bedfellows.
Origin of bedfellow
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Related Words for bedfellow
mate, friend, customer, patron, visitor, caller, companion, inmate, client, recipient, tenant, vacationer, roomie, flatmate, bunkmate, lodger, transient, boarder, frequenter, renterExamples from the Web for bedfellow
Historical Examples of bedfellow
My cousin Jenny Fynnett is here, and desires to be my bedfellow to-night.
Clarissa, Volume 2 (of 9)Samuel Richardson
We were afraid of awakening her bedfellow, and kept perfect silence.
The Memoires of Casanova, CompleteJacques Casanova de Seingalt
I had exchanged my brother John as a bedfellow for Walter Packard.
The Story of a Cannoneer Under Stonewall JacksonEdward A. Moore
At length the elder brother wearied of this diversion and aroused his bedfellow.
ManassehMaurus Jokai
The next moment his bedfellow was "covered" with two "guns."
Roosevelt in the Bad LandsH. Hagedorn.
bedfellow
noun
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