bed wetter
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6.5
- noun
- /bɛd ˈwɛtər/
:
enurético
- And he's a chronic bed wetter.
Examples
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I was a bed-wetter when I was younger.
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I confided in Nanny what had happened... ...and how I'd become a bed wetter.
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No wonder he was a bed-wetter until he was eleven.
Fiction book (1997) -
Apparently, he's a bed wetter.
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Did you know Dave's a bed-wetter?
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He was a bed-wetter.
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The only symptom that was not alleviated by surgery in our series was enuresis; only 2 of the 11 children (18%) who were bed-wetters showed any improvement.
Academic text (1999) -
Toward this child with his glasses and braces, this bed-wetter and sobber in his sleep, worried at age eight about his diet and already seeing a therapist, toward this small bundle of bones and anxieties, not at all the sort of grandchild he would ever have imagined having, Bernstein felt a stab of protective love such as he had never felt before in his life.
Fiction book (1995) -
As a child, I was embarrassed to be known as a bed wetter among my friends.
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Many children go through a phase where they are a bed wetter and may need extra support.
Synonyms
3
7.9
A person, often a child, who pees in bed while asleep
1
8.9
A person, usually a child, who pees in bed while sleeping
A person who wets the bed or cannot control their pee
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly and compositionally derived from 'bed' (place of sleeping) + 'wetter' (one who wets); a B1 learner who knows the constituents can infer it as 'a person who wets the bed'. The agentive -er formation and noun+agent compound is a regular, cross-linguistically common pattern, supporting full transparency.
Etymology
Bed wetter comes from the simple image of someone who wets the bed while sleeping. The word wetter means a person who wets something, so the phrase means a person, often a child, who 'wets the bed' at night.