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单词 love-child
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love-childn.

Brit. /ˈlʌvtʃʌɪld/, U.S. /ˈləvˌtʃaɪld/
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: love n.1, child n.
Etymology: < love n.1 + child n.Compare slightly earlier use of the child of love in the title of S. Porter tr. A. von Kotzebue Lovers' Vows, or the Child of Love (1798) (German Das Kind der Liebe (first performance 1790)).
1. An illegitimate child; esp. one born as a result of a brief or extra-marital affair.
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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.
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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).
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