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A bedhead is the upright board or frame at the end of the bed where you put your pillow — the part behind your head when you lie down. Many people also call this a ; bedhead is common in British English for that piece of furniture. It is simply bed plus head, the head end of the bed. Middle English already had bed-head and even “bed’s head.” Though actually, you will also hear bedhead for the messy hair you have when you first get up; that is a different, informal sense. This entry is the furniture. It is also not the old suffix -head you meet in rare words like godhead; the pieces here are the ordinary nouns bed and head.
床頭板
組成bed + head. From Middle English bed-head, bedhede, also written as beddes hede (“bed’s head”). Superficially like words built with the suffix -head, but this one is just the two ordinary nouns.
原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
bedheadnoun詞源 1/ˈbɛd.hɛd/
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The condition of having unkempt hair, generally as a result of having just woken up from sleep.
- Hand was looking flustered with me, though he was still only half-awake and his bedhead was ridiculous […]
- She always came to the office late because she was an INSOMNIAC, lewd grin, bedhead, and miniskirt, the CEO laughing his head off down the hallway, old word style, but new to have this dirty kind of hilarious brunette.
bedheadnoun詞源 2/ˈbɛd.hɛd/
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A vertical panel or board at the end of a bed where the pillow is placed.
- Holonyms: bedstead; bedframe (sometimes comeronymous)
- […] upon this he went up stairs in his shirt, and found the boy hanging in his belt to the staple within the bed-head, and no higher than would admit him to be on his knees, having only his shirt on.
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The end of a bed where the pillow is placed, the head of the bed.
- Miss Macspleuchan, with a faint shriek, rang the bell at the bed-head violently; but before she or any one else could reach her, Lady Cecilia had fallen heavily on the floor, where she lay unconsciously, her maid falling down over her as she rushed into the room, alarmed by the sudden and violent ringing of the bell.
- She turned off the bed-head light in this tiny, low-ceiled rolling home of hers, raised the curtain and watched the specks of light streak by.
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。