baby farmern.
/ˈbeɪbɪ ˌfɑːmə/, U.S. /ˈbeɪbi ˌfɑrmər/ derogatory. Now historical.
A person who practises baby farming or who runs a baby farm.
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the world > action or operation > safety > protection or defence > care, protection, or charge > [noun] > one who looks after > child-minder or baby-sitter > one who looks after babies for profit
baby farmer1867
1867 Pall Mall Gaz. 26 Sept. 8/2 The Telegraph goes on to warn the ‘unhappy persons’ who..confide the secret of their shame to the baby-farmers of the peril that they run.
1868 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 22 Feb. 174/2 Children but a few months old were fed by the less indifferent of these baby-farmers with some of their own coarse food.
1896 Daily News 26 Apr. 2/3 The great ledger in which are kept their patiently accumulated records of the baby farmers.
1933 J. R. Sheehan & C. A. L. Treadwell Famous Murders in N.Z. 27 Eager eyes were turned upon the infamous baby-farmer [sc. Minnie Dean] as she was escorted to the dock.
1999 J. Morton Sex, Crimes & Misdemeanours ii. xii. 134 Five baby farmers were hanged in the 37 years from 1870.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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