| 单词 | merry-begot |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmerry-begot merry-begot adj. and n. colloquial and regional (British and Canadian) (a) adj. (of a child) conceived out of wedlock, illegitimate; (b) n. an illegitimate child. ΚΠ 1869 J. C. Atkinson Peacock's Gloss. Dial. Hundred of Lonsdale (at cited word) Merry-begot, illegitimate. 1885 H. Caine Shadow of Crime 103 That Joe Garth is a merry-begot. 1903 Eng. Dial. Dict. IV. 93/1 [N. Westmorland] T'Barn's net ta bleeam that it's a merry-begot. 1966 in Dict. Newfoundland Eng. (1982) 328/1 This child is not simply an illegitimate child, but a ‘moss child’ or a ‘moonlight child’ or a child that is ‘merry begot’. 1968 Newfoundland Q. Christmas 5 They often lived together without benefit of clergy and children born out of wedlock were called by the delightful name of ‘merrybegots’. 1972 R. Davies Manticore ii. iv. 116 You'd be branded as a bastard, a love-child, a merry-begot. < as lemmas |
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