Definitions

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  • noun The space beside a couch.

Etymologies

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couch +‎ -side

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Examples

  • Medicine is horribly understood as it is, due in large part to criminally irresponsonsible journalism (which is the norm, sadly), and the wealth of bogus information available to every couchside self-appointed doctor to seduce even the faintest confirmation bias.

    WebMD Meets Facebook (and Wikipedia): A Medical Revolution or a Nightmare? - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com 2007

  • They brought him home, and Surak hurried to his couchside—to rebuke him.

    The Romulan Way Diane Duane 2000

  • They brought him home, and Surak hurried to his couchside—to rebuke him.

    The Romulan Way Diane Duane 2000

  • Littlejohn pressed a lever and rolled up to the couchside.

    This Crowded Earth Robert Bloch 1955

  • Lew Wee always sleeps in an air-tight room packed with cigarette smoke, and a lamp turned high at his couchside; and Lew

    Ma Pettengill Harry Leon Wilson 1903

  • Grade A Choice Government Inspected couchside manner.

    Brain Twister Laurence M. Janifer 1967

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