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bedfellow [ˈbɛdˌfɛləʊ] n
1. a person with whom one shares a bed 2. a temporary ally or associate ThesaurusLegend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
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And about this harpooneer, whom I have not yet seen, you persist in telling me the most mystifying and exasperating stories, tending to beget in me an uncomfortable feeling towards the man whom you design for my bedfellow --a sort of connexion, landlord, which is an intimate and confidential one in the highest degree. Of our bedfellow Death, and cry: "O fudge At four o'clock, on such a roseate summer's morning as even made Great Gaunt Street look cheerful, the faithful Tinker, having wakened her bedfellow, and bid her prepare for departure, unbarred and unbolted the great hall door (the clanging and clapping whereof startled the sleeping echoes in the street), and taking her way into Oxford Street, summoned a coach from a stand there. |
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