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[
bed
-fel-oh
]
bed·fel·low
/
ˈbɛdˌfɛl
oʊ
/
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bed
-fel-oh
]
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noun
1.
Also called
bedmate.
a person who shares one's bed.
2.
an associate or collaborator, especially one who forms a temporary alliance for reasons of expediency:
Politics makes strange bedfellows.
Origin:
1400–50;
late Middle English
bedfelow.
See
bed
,
fellow
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bedfellow
(ˈbɛdˌfɛləʊ)
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n
1.
a person with whom one shares a bed
2.
a temporary ally or associate
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"It is worth the while to live respectably unto ourselves. We can possibly get along with a neighbor, even with a
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