bedful

Definitions

1. The amount that can fit in a bed.
2. A sexual encounter.

Examples

“He and Bob in one low bed and Tom and Joe in the other—one bedful used to be jealous of the other bedful if it had more snow⟳ on its blue-and-white coverlet in the morning.”

“In a bedful of petunias, a hollow groan.”

“"It looked like⟳ a bedful of the plant⟳, I acknowledge." "A bedful: yes, sir, six bedfuls! "”

“Were you to have⟳ possessed the merest smattering of knowledge about this primary and basic economic tenet you would not have⟳ thrown over two bedsful of perfectly good French marigolds and gone over to intensive radish farming!”

“Jack would wake⟳ me up in the middle of the night and tell⟳ me to go in there and look⟳ at the baby asleep in a bedful of dogs.”

“Nothing but an opium dream⟳ could transform⟳ the bare walls and the dirty cotton curtains into an Oriental palace with silken drapes and bedfuls of lovely daughters of the East.”

“I recently heard in reference to a newly married couple: “Them two'll make⟳ pert near a bedful.””

“On the plus side, being back in Stepney meant well-rounded platefuls of his wife's cooking and a well-rounded bedful of his well-rounded wife.”

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