pa-in-lawn.
/ˈpɑː(r)ɪnˌlɔː/, U.S. /ˈpɑᵻnˌlɔ/, /ˈpɑᵻnˌlɑ/ colloquial.
= father-in-law n.
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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > parent > father > [noun] > father-in-law
eldfatherc1200
father-in-lawa1382
father-law1445
good-father1488
law-father1582
law's father1593
stepfathera1640
dad-in-law1694
papa-in-law1821
pa-in-law1840
1840 J. R. Planché Sleeping Beauty (Add.) iii. ii. f. 222 Now I look again, this queer old fellow..May be my future Pa-in-law.
1849 W. M. Thackeray Pendennis II. xxxvii. 362 Pa-in-law's, a-hem! never mind, but ma-in-law's a trump.
1949 E. Coxhead Wind in West xii. 289 I couldn't throw away the chance of poking my fingers into pa-in-law's pie.
1982 Washington Post 20 Jan. c1 Producer Frank Gero—Liza Minnelli's Pa-In-Law—says they're on the verge of the Great Signing.
2002 Sunday Age (Melbourne) (Nexis) 27 Jan. 16 Politics must be in the body fluids: Bill's pa-in-law is Liberal moneybags Julian Beale.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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