单词 | baby-making |
释义 | baby-makingn. 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. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > biological processes > procreation or reproduction > [noun] i-streonc893 strainc950 akennessOE spreadingOE upspringc1000 akenningOE akennednessOE strainc1175 streningc1230 begetc1330 begettingc1330 engendrurec1350 generationa1382 gettinga1382 genderingc1384 multiplicationa1387 increase1390 prolificationa1393 procreationc1395 engenderinga1400 gendrure?a1400 engendure?a1425 progeniturec1429 propagation?1440 teemingc1450 breeda1500 geniturea1500 engenderment1507 progeneration1548 fathering1549 engender1556 race1561 multiplying1599 pullulation1641 progermination1648 reproduction1713 face-making1785 baby-making1827 begettal1864 fertility1866 the world > life > biology > biological processes > procreation or reproduction > pregnancy or gestation > [noun] pregnation?a1425 gravidation1450 pregnancyc1487 conceytatea1500 greatnessa1500 tympany1580 childbearing1612 gestation1615 ingravidation1615 gravidity1651 pregnantness1727 utero-gestation1775 baby-making1827 situation1829 enceinteship1841 tecnogonia1860 infanticipation1934 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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