Definitions for featherbed

featherbed feath·er·bed

Spelling: [feth -er-bed]
IPA: /ˈfɛð ərˌbɛd/

Featherbed is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 19 points.

You can make 411 anagrams from letters in featherbed (abdeeefhrt).

Definitions for featherbed

verb (used with or without object)

  1. to subject to or engage in featherbedding.

Origin of featherbed

First recorded in 1945-50; back formation from featherbedding

Examples for featherbed

I have a piece of mutton and a featherbed for you at all times; I pray make haste.

Nothing is more debilitating, than, in warm weather, to sleep with a featherbed pressing round the greater part of the body.

Coming home it was a gorgeous winter's night on the featherbed Mountain.

A bit of straw matting, laid over a featherbed, and covered with the under sheet, makes a very cool bed for an infant.

Return to his bedroom, throw off the clothes, beat the featherbed, see that the fustian and sheets are clean.

It is, indeed, from no featherbed journey or carpet-knight's tour that Mr Coke has recently returned.

After such a galvanic shock, I could have found, if that had been my need, a featherbed on the Arc de l'toile.

A simple strip of broad straw matting, spread over a featherbed, answers the same purpose.

I have heard of one who used to get into the middle of a featherbed.

She had the featherbed temperament, and soothed masculine nerves exacerbated by the cruel exigencies of art.

Word Value for featherbed
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Words with friends

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