bridesmaid
nounverbattested in dialogue
- //ˈbɹaɪdzˌmeɪd//
A woman who attends a bride during her wedding ceremony, as part of the main wedding party.
noun
- 1
A woman who attends a bride during her wedding ceremony, as part of the main wedding party.
I'd love to be your bridesmaid at the wedding.
I was promised sex. Everybody said it. You'll be a bridesmaid, you'll get sex, you'll be fighting 'em off. But not so much as a tongue in sight.
- 2
A person or team that perennially finishes well, but never first.
He had taken her for a dogsbody, a beta fish, a bridesmaid, a ride-along; he had looked right past her, as likely many people did.
Etymology
From bride + -s- + maid. In the sports and entertainment sense: in reference to the saying always a bridesmaid, never a bride.
verb
- 1
To act as a bridesmaid for; to attend a bride during her wedding ceremony.
"No, Trichy; I won't be Augusta's bridesmaid; I'll bide my time for bridesmaiding."
And what's this? that isn't Herbie Frost with you in the canoe ; why he was best man when I bridesmaided Corinne.
"It's in my Data-fax, right here! December Bride: and I'm supposed to bridesmaid!"
After ten years of friendship and just six months of lackluster bridesmaiding, the women did not even get an invitation to the wedding.
Forms
- plural
- bridesmaids
- past tense
- bridesmaided
- past participle
- bridesmaided
- present participle
- bridesmaiding
- third person singular
- bridesmaids
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