BED-POST

Domain	Definition
Literature	Bed-post In the twinkling of a bed-post. As quickly as possible. In the ancient bed-frames movable staves were laid as we now lay iron laths; there were also staves in the two sides of the bedstead for keeping the bed-clothes from rolling off; and in some cases a staff was used to beat the bed and clean it. In the reign of Edward I., Sir John Chichester had a mock skirmish with his servant (Sir John with his rapier and the servant with the bed-staff), in which the servant was accidentally killed. Wright, in his Domestic Manners, shows us a chamber-maid of the seventeenth century using a bed-staff to beat up the bedding. "Twinkling" means a rapid twist or turn. (Old French, guincher: Welsh, gwing, gwingaw, our wriggle.) "Ill do it instantly, in the twinkling of a bed-staff."-Shadwell: Virtuoso, 1676. "He would have cut him down in the twinkling of a bed-post."-"Rabelais," done into English. Bobadil, in Every Man in his Humour, and Lord Duberley, in the Heir-at-Law, use the same expression. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
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Usage Frequency: BED-POST

"BED-POST" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "BED-POST" is used about 2 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Modern Translation: BED-POST

Language		Translations for "BED-POST"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Hungarian		mennyezetes ágy tartóoszlopa. (various references)

Pig Latin		ed-postbay

Ukrainian		ніжка ліжка. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Anagrams: BED-POST

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: bedpost.
	Words within the letters "b-d-e-o-p-s-t"
	-1 letter: depots, despot, posted, stoped.
	-2 letters: besot, bodes, debts, depot, doest, dopes, dotes, estop, opted, pesto, poets, posed, spode, stope, toped, topes.
	-3 letters: beds, best, bets, bode, bods, bops, bots, debs, debt, does, dope, dose, dost, dote, dots, epos, obes, odes, oped, opes, opts, peds, peso, pest, pets, pods, poet, pose, post, pots, sept.
	Words containing the letters "b-d-e-o-p-s-t"
	+1 letter: bedposts, subdepot.
	+2 letters: speedboat, subdepots.
	+3 letters: pasteboard, postdebate, speedboats.
	+4 letters: backstopped, paddleboats, pasteboards.
	+5 letters: bootstrapped, plasterboard, speedboating, suboptimized.
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