bedpan
pronunciation
How to pronounce bedpan in British English:
UK [ˈbedpæn]
How to pronounce bedpan in American English:
US [ ˈbedpæn]
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- Noun:
- a shallow vessel used by a bedridden patient for defecation and urination
Word Origin
- bedpan (n.)
- also bed-pan, 1580s, from bed (n.) + pan (n.).
Example
- 1. To break that steel bedpan into pieces ?
- 2. Gendler notes that the belief here is : the bedpan is clean , the fudge is fudge , the gun is empty .
- 3. When I arrived at her home to bring the fixed bedpan .
- 4. A bedpan or a plastic container would have been easier , but I didn 't have the former and the latter seemed gross .
- 5. Or consider the findings of paul rozin , a professor of psychology at the university of pennsylvania , that people often refuse to drink soup from a brand-new bedpan , eat fudge shaped like feces , or put an empty gun to their head and pull the trigger .