单词 | dadless |
释义 | dadlessadj. colloquial (rare before 20th cent.). Fatherless. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > child > relationship to parent > [adjective] > having (specific) parents > having a father > fatherless fatherlessOE unfathereda1586 sireless1605 dadless1606 1606 W. Warner Continuance Albions Eng. xiv. xci. 369 So many dadlesse Babes. 1903 Cuba (Kansas) Daylight 27 Feb. 1/2 I'm afraid if they keep on they'll yet make dadless boys! 1986 Islands May 32/3 One of them [sc. prayers], printed out, evokes ‘dadless children’ clinging to the widow's skirts. 2009 J. Dee Thanks for Nothing (2010) xxxi. 285 Bloated dadless families wandered from shop to shop. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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