Old Word of the Day: Bedpresser

29 Sep 2014

BEDPRESSER. A dull, heavy fellow. Appears in Shakespeare when Prince Hal insults Falstaff:

“This sanguine coward, this bed-presser, this horse-back-
breaker, this huge hill of flesh.”

Henry IV, Part 1, act 2, sc. 4, l. 241-3.

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