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单词 bedside
释义

bedsiden.

/ˈbɛdˌsʌɪd/
Etymology: Coalesced < bed's side in prepositional phrases like ‘by the beddes side’ = beside the bed; thus not a true compound.
Place or position by a bed: used in various phrases, to signify proximity to, companionship with, or attendance on, one confined to bed.
ΘΚΠ
the world > health and disease > healing > places for the sick or injured > [noun] > bed for sick person > bedside
bedsidec1374
c1374 G. Chaucer Parl. Foules 99 Right at my beddis side.
c1440 Gesta Romanorum i. 3 My wif..wolle hyde his body by hire beddys syde.
a1500 (?a1400) Sir Torrent of Portyngale (1887) l. 1362 The damysell..Set hym on her bed-syde.
1628 J. Earle Micro-cosmogr. iv. sig. B7v A meere dull Physician, His practice is some businesse at bed-sides.
1713 A. Pope Narr. Robert Norris 21 Snatch'd up a Peruke-Block, that stood by the Bed-side.
1752 C. Lennox Female Quixote I. iii. viii. 176 Never-ceasing attendance at the bed-side of her sick father.
1840 C. Thirlwall Hist. Greece VII. lv. 94 He instantly hurried to his friend's bedside.

Compounds

C1. attributive, as bedside book, bedside literature.
ΘΚΠ
society > communication > book > kind of book > book for specific occasion > [noun] > specific
Christmas book1769
lounging-booka1797
lounge-book1800
railway novel1849
birthday book?1859
livre de chevet1883
bed-book1906
pillow book1906
bedside book1920
bedside literature1920
1837 C. Dickens Pickwick Papers xxxviii. 416 A female servant came out..to shake some bed-side carpets.
1859 F. Nightingale Notes on Nursing viii. 46 If the patient can turn on his side, he will eat more comfortably from a bed-side table.
1879 C. M. Yonge Magnum Bonum II. xxvii. 570 Poor Janet found the thing in the back of the bedside table-drawer.
1920 Cornhill Mag. July 63 Bedside Books.
1920 Cornhill Mag. July 64 Bedside literature.
1949 D. Smith I capture Castle (U.K. ed.) i. ii. 12 I keep my bedside candlestick on a battered tin trunk.
C2.
bedside manner n. the deportment of a doctor towards his or her patient.
ΘΚΠ
the world > health and disease > healing > art or science of medicine > practice of healing art > [noun] > bedside manner
bedside manner1869
1869 E. Prentiss Stepping Heavenward (1870) xxv. 237 He was her ‘pet-doctor’, he had such ‘sweet, bed-side manners’.
1884 Punch 15 Mar. 121 Lady Visitor. ‘Oh that's your Doctor, is it? What sort of a doctor is he?’ Lady Resident. ‘Oh well, I don't know much about his ability; but he's got a very good bedside manner!’
1907 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 28 Dec. 1845/1 The ordinary notion is that a good bedside manner consists of suavity carried to the verge of civility.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online September 2020).
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