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playfellow

English

Etymology

play +? fellow

Noun

playfellow (plural playfellows)

  1. (dated) playmate; companion for someone (especially children) to play with.
    • 1922, Margery Williams, The Velveteen Rabbit
      "I’ve brought you a new playfellow," the Fairy said. "You must be very kind to him and teach him all he needs to know in Rabbitland, for he is going to live with you for ever and ever!"
    • 1912: Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan of the Apes, Chapter 5
      Now she was within ten feet of the two unsuspecting little playfellows--carefully she drew her hind feet well up beneath her body, the great muscles rolling under the beautiful skin.
    • 1847, Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights, chapter XIX:
      "Linton is just six months younger than I am, {...} How delightful it will be to have him for a playfellow!"

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bedfellow

English

Etymology

From Middle English bedfelawe, equivalent to bed +? fellow.

Noun

bedfellow (plural bedfellows)

  1. One with whom one shares a bed.
    Synonym: bedmate
  2. (by extension) An associate, often an otherwise improbable one.

Derived terms

  • strange bedfellows

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