What did Colbert mean by “bedude form"?
In his most recent monologue on The Late Show, the comedian host Stephen Colbert, gently mocked a New York Times reporter's style of writing (watch YouTube excerpt)
“500 words” she whispered, her silken robe sliding to the floor as the morning sun hit her bedude form.
I think that's how the word "bedude" is supposed to be spelled, if word it is. I looked and searched online and found nothing. It's my guess that Colbert misspoke, and I would normally shrug it off; however, seconds later he repeated the term bedude [?], quite emphatically I may add. Saying
Even (This is getting sexy, this is kinda getting sexy. I like “bedude”). Even people at the White House don't know what to do, there is no war room…
Mr Colbert is an educated man, a fine wit and appears to be extremely well-read, on more than one occasion he has cited poetry and literary passages by heart, so maybe I am wrong and maybe bedude is a "word".
I have checked online but unearthed nothing of value. So, bedude could be an inside joke, a malapropism, a spoonerism for denude, it could be that I have misspelt it, or it might be none of the above.
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In his most recent monologue on The Late Show, the comedian host Stephen Colbert, gently mocked a New York Times reporter's style of writing (watch YouTube excerpt)
“500 words” she whispered, her silken robe sliding to the floor as the morning sun hit her bedude form.
I think that's how the word "bedude" is supposed to be spelled, if word it is. I looked and searched online and found nothing. It's my guess that Colbert misspoke, and I would normally shrug it off; however, seconds later he repeated the term bedude [?], quite emphatically I may add. Saying
Even (This is getting sexy, this is kinda getting sexy. I like “bedude”). Even people at the White House don't know what to do, there is no war room…
Mr Colbert is an educated man, a fine wit and appears to be extremely well-read, on more than one occasion he has cited poetry and literary passages by heart, so maybe I am wrong and maybe bedude is a "word".
I have checked online but unearthed nothing of value. So, bedude could be an inside joke, a malapropism, a spoonerism for denude, it could be that I have misspelt it, or it might be none of the above.
prefixes neologisms malapropism
asked 15 hours ago
Mari-Lou AMari-Lou A
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@choster Ohhhhhh... that makes sense. Please post an answer, so I can accept it!
– Mari-Lou A
14 hours ago
While bedewed is certainly right here, it feels like "bedude" could be used to make fun of the recent lexical popularity of "bespoke."
– TaliesinMerlin
12 hours ago
@choster I hope they're analogous droplets because if she's got literal dew on her she's cold - dead cold. Maybe she's too delicate to sweat.
– Chris H
10 hours ago
Choster may well be working or sleeping and deserves any rep from an answer. That would be enough to stop me taking their guys and turning it into an answer
– Chris H
10 hours ago
@ChrisH I replied almost instantaneously, and checked an hour or two later to see if he was online, he was. Choster, for whatever reason, didn't feel like posting it as an answer. That's fine, I'm glad that Jason Bassford did, maybe a mention about the pronunciation and its spelling would have been nice, but I'm not complaining. Upvoted and accepted.
– Mari-Lou A
3 hours ago
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In his most recent monologue on The Late Show, the comedian host Stephen Colbert, gently mocked a New York Times reporter's style of writing (watch YouTube excerpt)
“500 words” she whispered, her silken robe sliding to the floor as the morning sun hit her bedude form.
I think that's how the word "bedude" is supposed to be spelled, if word it is. I looked and searched online and found nothing. It's my guess that Colbert misspoke, and I would normally shrug it off; however, seconds later he repeated the term bedude [?], quite emphatically I may add. Saying
Even (This is getting sexy, this is kinda getting sexy. I like “bedude”). Even people at the White House don't know what to do, there is no war room…
Mr Colbert is an educated man, a fine wit and appears to be extremely well-read, on more than one occasion he has cited poetry and literary passages by heart, so maybe I am wrong and maybe bedude is a "word".
I have checked online but unearthed nothing of value. So, bedude could be an inside joke, a malapropism, a spoonerism for denude, it could be that I have misspelt it, or it might be none of the above.
prefixes neologisms malapropism
asked 15 hours ago
Mari-Lou AMari-Lou A
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In his most recent monologue on The Late Show, the comedian host Stephen Colbert, gently mocked a New York Times reporter's style of writing (watch YouTube excerpt)
“500 words” she whispered, her silken robe sliding to the floor as the morning sun hit her bedude form.
I think that's how the word "bedude" is supposed to be spelled, if word it is. I looked and searched online and found nothing. It's my guess that Colbert misspoke, and I would normally shrug it off; however, seconds later he repeated the term bedude [?], quite emphatically I may add. Saying
Even (This is getting sexy, this is kinda getting sexy. I like “bedude”). Even people at the White House don't know what to do, there is no war room…
Mr Colbert is an educated man, a fine wit and appears to be extremely well-read, on more than one occasion he has cited poetry and literary passages by heart, so maybe I am wrong and maybe bedude is a "word".
I have checked online but unearthed nothing of value. So, bedude could be an inside joke, a malapropism, a spoonerism for denude, it could be that I have misspelt it, or it might be none of the above.
prefixes neologisms malapropism
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@choster Ohhhhhh... that makes sense. Please post an answer, so I can accept it!
– Mari-Lou A
14 hours ago
While bedewed is certainly right here, it feels like "bedude" could be used to make fun of the recent lexical popularity of "bespoke."
– TaliesinMerlin
12 hours ago
@choster I hope they're analogous droplets because if she's got literal dew on her she's cold - dead cold. Maybe she's too delicate to sweat.
– Chris H
10 hours ago
Choster may well be working or sleeping and deserves any rep from an answer. That would be enough to stop me taking their guys and turning it into an answer
– Chris H
10 hours ago
@ChrisH I replied almost instantaneously, and checked an hour or two later to see if he was online, he was. Choster, for whatever reason, didn't feel like posting it as an answer. That's fine, I'm glad that Jason Bassford did, maybe a mention about the pronunciation and its spelling would have been nice, but I'm not complaining. Upvoted and accepted.
– Mari-Lou A
3 hours ago
add a comment |
@choster Ohhhhhh... that makes sense. Please post an answer, so I can accept it!
– Mari-Lou A
14 hours ago
While bedewed is certainly right here, it feels like "bedude" could be used to make fun of the recent lexical popularity of "bespoke."
– TaliesinMerlin
12 hours ago
@choster I hope they're analogous droplets because if she's got literal dew on her she's cold - dead cold. Maybe she's too delicate to sweat.
– Chris H
10 hours ago
Choster may well be working or sleeping and deserves any rep from an answer. That would be enough to stop me taking their guys and turning it into an answer
– Chris H
10 hours ago
@ChrisH I replied almost instantaneously, and checked an hour or two later to see if he was online, he was. Choster, for whatever reason, didn't feel like posting it as an answer. That's fine, I'm glad that Jason Bassford did, maybe a mention about the pronunciation and its spelling would have been nice, but I'm not complaining. Upvoted and accepted.
– Mari-Lou A
3 hours ago
@choster Ohhhhhh... that makes sense. Please post an answer, so I can accept it!
– Mari-Lou A
14 hours ago
@choster Ohhhhhh... that makes sense. Please post an answer, so I can accept it!
– Mari-Lou A
14 hours ago
While bedewed is certainly right here, it feels like "bedude" could be used to make fun of the recent lexical popularity of "bespoke."
– TaliesinMerlin
12 hours ago
While bedewed is certainly right here, it feels like "bedude" could be used to make fun of the recent lexical popularity of "bespoke."
– TaliesinMerlin
12 hours ago
@choster I hope they're analogous droplets because if she's got literal dew on her she's cold - dead cold. Maybe she's too delicate to sweat.
– Chris H
10 hours ago
@choster I hope they're analogous droplets because if she's got literal dew on her she's cold - dead cold. Maybe she's too delicate to sweat.
– Chris H
10 hours ago
Choster may well be working or sleeping and deserves any rep from an answer. That would be enough to stop me taking their guys and turning it into an answer
– Chris H
10 hours ago
Choster may well be working or sleeping and deserves any rep from an answer. That would be enough to stop me taking their guys and turning it into an answer
– Chris H
10 hours ago
@ChrisH I replied almost instantaneously, and checked an hour or two later to see if he was online, he was. Choster, for whatever reason, didn't feel like posting it as an answer. That's fine, I'm glad that Jason Bassford did, maybe a mention about the pronunciation and its spelling would have been nice, but I'm not complaining. Upvoted and accepted.
– Mari-Lou A
3 hours ago
@ChrisH I replied almost instantaneously, and checked an hour or two later to see if he was online, he was. Choster, for whatever reason, didn't feel like posting it as an answer. That's fine, I'm glad that Jason Bassford did, maybe a mention about the pronunciation and its spelling would have been nice, but I'm not complaining. Upvoted and accepted.
– Mari-Lou A
3 hours ago
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As per a comment under the question, bedude is not a word. However, bedewed is.
From bedew:
[Merriam-Webster]
: to wet with or as if with dew
We can assume that's the word he's pronouncing—and presumably he's describing the sun shining off of water droplets on her body. (Although, oddly, the YouTube closed-captioning used specifically ignores that single word—even when it's spoken a second time.)
answered 9 hours ago
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He may have said or meant "benuded", as in "made nude".
answered 11 hours ago
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You can hear Colbert speaking in the YouTube link I posted. He definitely did not say "benuded"
– Mari-Lou A
11 hours ago
Then it would probably be, as Choster said, bedewed.
– PvtBuddie
10 hours ago
i listened ... could not tell what word he enunciated. Someone could ask him.
– lbf
7 hours ago
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As per a comment under the question, bedude is not a word. However, bedewed is.
From bedew:
[Merriam-Webster]
: to wet with or as if with dew
We can assume that's the word he's pronouncing—and presumably he's describing the sun shining off of water droplets on her body. (Although, oddly, the YouTube closed-captioning used specifically ignores that single word—even when it's spoken a second time.)
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As per a comment under the question, bedude is not a word. However, bedewed is.
From bedew:
[Merriam-Webster]
: to wet with or as if with dew
We can assume that's the word he's pronouncing—and presumably he's describing the sun shining off of water droplets on her body. (Although, oddly, the YouTube closed-captioning used specifically ignores that single word—even when it's spoken a second time.)
answered 9 hours ago
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As per a comment under the question, bedude is not a word. However, bedewed is.
From bedew:
[Merriam-Webster]
: to wet with or as if with dew
We can assume that's the word he's pronouncing—and presumably he's describing the sun shining off of water droplets on her body. (Although, oddly, the YouTube closed-captioning used specifically ignores that single word—even when it's spoken a second time.)
answered 9 hours ago
Jason BassfordJason Bassford
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As per a comment under the question, bedude is not a word. However, bedewed is.
From bedew:
[Merriam-Webster]
: to wet with or as if with dew
We can assume that's the word he's pronouncing—and presumably he's describing the sun shining off of water droplets on her body. (Although, oddly, the YouTube closed-captioning used specifically ignores that single word—even when it's spoken a second time.)
answered 9 hours ago
Jason BassfordJason Bassford
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He may have said or meant "benuded", as in "made nude".
answered 11 hours ago
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You can hear Colbert speaking in the YouTube link I posted. He definitely did not say "benuded"
– Mari-Lou A
11 hours ago
Then it would probably be, as Choster said, bedewed.
– PvtBuddie
10 hours ago
i listened ... could not tell what word he enunciated. Someone could ask him.
– lbf
7 hours ago
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He may have said or meant "benuded", as in "made nude".
answered 11 hours ago
PvtBuddiePvtBuddie
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You can hear Colbert speaking in the YouTube link I posted. He definitely did not say "benuded"
– Mari-Lou A
11 hours ago
Then it would probably be, as Choster said, bedewed.
– PvtBuddie
10 hours ago
i listened ... could not tell what word he enunciated. Someone could ask him.
– lbf
7 hours ago
add a comment |
He may have said or meant "benuded", as in "made nude".
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He may have said or meant "benuded", as in "made nude".
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You can hear Colbert speaking in the YouTube link I posted. He definitely did not say "benuded"
– Mari-Lou A
11 hours ago
Then it would probably be, as Choster said, bedewed.
– PvtBuddie
10 hours ago
i listened ... could not tell what word he enunciated. Someone could ask him.
– lbf
7 hours ago
add a comment |
You can hear Colbert speaking in the YouTube link I posted. He definitely did not say "benuded"
– Mari-Lou A
11 hours ago
Then it would probably be, as Choster said, bedewed.
– PvtBuddie
10 hours ago
i listened ... could not tell what word he enunciated. Someone could ask him.
– lbf
7 hours ago
You can hear Colbert speaking in the YouTube link I posted. He definitely did not say "benuded"
– Mari-Lou A
11 hours ago
You can hear Colbert speaking in the YouTube link I posted. He definitely did not say "benuded"
– Mari-Lou A
11 hours ago
Then it would probably be, as Choster said, bedewed.
– PvtBuddie
10 hours ago
Then it would probably be, as Choster said, bedewed.
– PvtBuddie
10 hours ago
i listened ... could not tell what word he enunciated. Someone could ask him.
– lbf
7 hours ago
i listened ... could not tell what word he enunciated. Someone could ask him.
– lbf
7 hours ago
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@choster Ohhhhhh... that makes sense. Please post an answer, so I can accept it!
– Mari-Lou A
14 hours ago
While bedewed is certainly right here, it feels like "bedude" could be used to make fun of the recent lexical popularity of "bespoke."
– TaliesinMerlin
12 hours ago
@choster I hope they're analogous droplets because if she's got literal dew on her she's cold - dead cold. Maybe she's too delicate to sweat.
– Chris H
10 hours ago
Choster may well be working or sleeping and deserves any rep from an answer. That would be enough to stop me taking their guys and turning it into an answer
– Chris H
10 hours ago
@ChrisH I replied almost instantaneously, and checked an hour or two later to see if he was online, he was. Choster, for whatever reason, didn't feel like posting it as an answer. That's fine, I'm glad that Jason Bassford did, maybe a mention about the pronunciation and its spelling would have been nice, but I'm not complaining. Upvoted and accepted.
– Mari-Lou A
3 hours ago