单词 | love-child |
释义 | love-childn. 1. An illegitimate child; esp. one born as a result of a brief or extra-marital affair. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > child > [noun] > illegitimate child avetrolc1300 bastardc1330 misbegetc1330 whoresonc1330 horcop14.. get?a1513 misbegotten1546 misbegot1558 mamzer1562 base1571 bantling1593 by-blow1595 by-chopa1637 by-scape1646 by-slipa1670 illegitimate1673 stall-whimper1676 love brata1700 slink1702 child, son of shame1723 babe of love1728 adulterine1730 come-by-chance?1750 byspel1781 love-child1805 come-o'-will1815 chance-child1838 chance-bairn1863 side-slip1872 fly-blow1875 catch colt1901 illegit1913 outside child1930 1805 ‘E. de Acton’ Nuns of Desert II. 10 Miss Blenheim being, what in that country is denominated, a love-child. a1822 P. B. Shelley Homer's Hymn to Mercury xxxviii, in Posthumous Poems (1824) 307 And where the ambrosial nymph..Bore the Saturnian's love-child, Mercury. 1894 J. A. Froude Life & Lett. Erasmus i. 2 Legend says that Erasmus was what is called a love-child. 1931 Amer. Mercury Feb. 210/1 Family whispers had it that the old lady was a love child. 1972 R. Davies Manticore ii. iv. 116 You'd be branded as a bastard, a love-child, a merry-begot. 1995 Independent 22 Nov. 10/7 (heading) Fairbairn widow pledges £10,000 to secret love-child. 2. figurative and in extended use: a product, a result; an offspring; (now esp.) the result of a combination or collaboration. ΚΠ 1854 T. L. Harris Lyric of Morning Land 7 This Poem is a Love-Child of the skies. 1884 J. A. Symonds Shakspere's Predecessors xv. 618 No sane critic will maintain that the ‘Jew of Malta’ was a love-child of its maker's genius. 1918 E. Goldman in P. Glassgold Anarchy! (2001) p. xxxiv Take care of my love child, Mother Earth Bulletin..so that I may find her bigger, stronger, and more worthwhile when I return from Jefferson. 1930 Polit. Sci. Q. 45 137 These terms, already used by Dean Wigmore in his famous case books on Torts, are fitting companions for ‘autopic proference’ and other neological love children. a1963 T. Roethke in R. J. Mills On Poet & his Craft (1965) ii. 66 I hate to abandon that poem: I feel it's something Miss Adams and I have created: a literary lovechild. 1999 Indianapolis Star-News 1 Jan. f2/2 The MPAA was a love child of two films: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, which talked frankly about sex, and Blowup, which showed it. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1805 |
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