bedhead
/ˈbɛd.hɛd/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 1.84 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "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."
- "Feeling slightly ashamed of himself, he sat up against the bedhead."
- "There was a big black wrought-iron double bed, with a mosaic in the centre of the bedhead."
Etymology
From bed + head. Superficially similar to, but etymologically distinguishable from, forms built from -head.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: bed-head
Usage
- Colloquial
- Countable
- Uncountable
- British usage