Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

bed-breaking

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.57 in modern English

Syllables: bed-break-ing
IPA

21

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

3

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Sexually wild, uninhibited, and energetic.

adj

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see bed, breaking.

Example Sentences

"The upside of the stormy affair is the nightly session of wall-shaking, ground-quaking, bed-breaking, neighbor-waking make-up sex."
"Their passionate gazes would be locked in silent promise of more bed-breaking sex romps in the coming hours."
"Edward is the epitome of thoughtfulnes who devotes himself to his wife's well-being, even if that means controlling his vampire urges to taste her sweet-smelling blood, and his teenage hormones that want more bed-breaking sex."
"Because I thought you were just bragging before, when we first came into the bungalow and you told me that as newlyweds, we were supposed to be 'having wild, bed-breaking sex.'”"

Etymology

Compound of bed + breaking, from the image of sex that is so wild that the bed on which it occurs falls apart from the strain.

Inflected Forms

more bed-breaking (comparative) most bed-breaking (superlative) bedbreaking (alternative) bed breaking (alternative)

Questions

What does bed-breaking mean?: Sexually wild, uninhibited, and energetic.
Where does bed-breaking come from?: Compound of bed + breaking, from the image of sex that is so wild that the bed on which it occurs falls apart from the strain.

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