baby-makingn.
/ˈbeɪbɪˌmeɪkɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈbeɪbiˌmeɪkɪŋ/ Procreation; the action of producing offspring, either by means of sexual intercourse or (in later use also) reproductive technology. Also: childbearing, motherhood.In quot. 1827 as part of an extended pun.
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the world > life > biology > biological processes > procreation or reproduction > [noun]
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the world > life > biology > biological processes > procreation or reproduction > pregnancy or gestation > [noun]
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1827 T. J. Hogg Two Hundred & Nine Days II. 141 She said that they were making a baby Jesus, Gesèe Bambino, in the church;..this kind of baby making seemed cheerless and ungenial... The church was open all night until lately; but, as it was imperfectly lighted, certain Christians..attempted to make babies there in a manner..much less mystical.
1856 S. B. Anthony Let. 5 June in A. D. Gordon Sel. Papers E. C. Stanton & S. B. Anthony (1997) I. 322 Those of you who have the talent to do honor to poor oh how poor womanhood, have all given yourselves over to baby making, & left poor brainless me to do battle alone.
1973 Sci. News 24 Feb. 126/1 Soupart doesn't think that the technique [sc. IVF] would usurp traditional babymaking for the bulk of society.
1989 M. Fine & N. Zane in L. Weis et al. Dropouts from School ii. 37 The traditions of the female gender role, romance, marriage, and babymaking.
1994 U.S. News & World Rep. (Nexis) 5 Dec. 84 The vast majority of couples..walk out of fertility centers empty-handed. At best, high-tech baby making is an imperfect science.
2003 Chicago Tribune (Midwest ed.) 24 Aug. xiii. 4/4 The couple took a leisurely, low-budget honeymoon in Australia, and there's speculation that that's when the baby-making may have taken place.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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