different between biddable vs beddable

English

Etymology

bid +? -able

Adjective

biddable (comparative more biddable, superlative most biddable)

1. Docile, amenable or compliant.
   • 1922, T. E. Lawrence, Seven Pillars of Wisdom, Chapter, [2]

     The conscripts took their fate unquestioning: resignedly, after the custom of Turkish peasantry. […] There was about them a hopeless, fever-wasted lack of initiative, which made them the most biddable, most enduring, and least spirited soldiers in the world.

   • 2005, Tony Judt, Postwar: A History of Europe since 1945, Penguin, Part Two, Chapter XIII, p. 431,

     What Western diplomats thought they saw in Bucharest's anti-Russian autocrats were the germs of a new Tito: stable, biddable and more interested in local power than international disruption.

2. (bridge) Suitable for bidding.

Translations

Derived terms

• biddability
• biddably
• unbiddable

Anagrams

• ad libbed, ad-libbed, adlibbed

English

Etymology

bed +? -able

Adjective

beddable (comparative more beddable, superlative most beddable)

1. (informal) Sexually attractive.
   • 1981, James Clavell, Noble House: A Novel of Contemporary Hong Kong (page 958)

     […] feminine, great body great legs great taste, trained and beddable, Jesus, how beddable.

Synonyms

• (vulgar) fuckable
• (vulgar) doable
• (vulgar) shaggable (esp. UK)

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