Name of an English county; humorously put for bed.
1665. Cotton, Poet. Wks. (1765), 76. Each one departs to Bedfordshire, And Pillows all securely snort on.
c. 1706. Swift, Polite Conv., iii. (D.). Faith, I’m for Bedfordshire.
[a. 1845. Hood, Kilmansegg (D.). There was the bed, so soft, so vast, Quite a field of Bedfordshire clover.]
