bedpost
pronunciation
How to pronounce bedpost in British English:
UK [ˈbedpəʊst]
How to pronounce bedpost in American English:
US [ˈbedpoʊst]
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- Noun:
- any of 4 vertical supports at the corners of a bedstead
Word Origin
- bedpost (n.)
- also bed-post, 1590s, from bed (n.) + post (n.1).
Example
- 1. The headline read : woman hangs herself on a bedpost .
- 2. By offering to make me a notch on your bedpost .
- 3. Between you , me and the bedpost , I think he 's lying .
- 4. No. what else explains striking the bedpost in that manner ?
- 5. There was one tale , for example , that she would tell about an aunt who had cared for her blind , bed-bound mother for years -- and then suddenly hanged herself from a bedpost .