Bedfordshire
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Proper noun
- A midland county of England, county town Bedford, bounded by Northamptonshire, Cambridgeshire, Hertfordshire and Buckinghamshire.
- Bed.
- 1993, Tom Wakefield, War Paint
- I'll be up to Bedfordshire if you two don't mind. I'm on early shift in the morning so I'll have to be up and out by five.
- 1998, Mary Sheepshanks, A Price for Everything
- Now come along young lady, up to Bedfordshire.
- 1993, Tom Wakefield, War Paint
Usage notes
The slang sense is used only for bed in its uncountable sense of a place to sleep, never to refer to an individual piece of furniture.