midhusbandn.
/ˈmɪdˌhʌzbənd/, U.S. /ˈmɪdˌ(h)əzbən(d)/ A man who performs the duties of a midwife; esp. one who helps bring something into being (cf. midwife n. 3).
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1948 Monthly Bull. Bureau of Health (Republic of Philippines) 23 360 The unlicensed mid-husbands that were summoned to attend the delivery tried to push the fundus of the uterus downward with their might until finally the uterine contractions ceased.
1984 Listener 16 Feb. 22/3 With some justice Haynes can claim to be the midhusband of at least the chic, artistic end of London's underground at the time it was the world's psychedelic capital.
1987 24 Hours (Sydney) Dec. 9/1 ‘I've described myself as a sort of musical, midhusband to the birth of some of his music’—English musician Roy Douglas, talking about his work with Vaughan Williams.
1994 Sunday Tel. 6 Feb. 16 My husband claimed that he had been traumatised by witnessing the birth of our first child and would therefore prefer not to act as midhusband to the birth of our second.
2015 J. T. Dock Houk Life's a Joke 297 The first mid-husband, when confronting his wife's pain said, ‘Can I get you a beer or something?’
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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