baby-mother

See also: baby mother and babymother

English

Noun

baby-mother (plural baby-mothers)

  1. Alternative form of babymother.
    • 1997, Suzanne LaFont, Deborah Pruitt, “The Colonial Legacy: Gendered Laws in Jamaica”, in Consuelo López Springfield, editor, Daughters of Caliban: Caribbean Women in the Twentieth Century, Bloomington, Ind.: Indiana University Press; London: Latin America Bureau, →ISBN, part IV (Women, Law, and Political Change), page 221:
      Being taken to court by his baby-mother is considered shameful to a Jamaican man because it demonstrates that he has lost control over her.
    • 2006, Heather A. Horst, Daniel Miller, “Link-up”, in The Cell Phone: An Anthropology of Communication, Oxford, Oxfordshire; New York, N.Y.: Berg, →ISBN, page 86:
      In the past when baby-fathers were reluctant to give support, baby-mothers had to make long treks as supplicants but the phone now saves them considerable, inconvenient and costly travelling.
    • 2017, Theodore Dalrymple [pseudonym; Anthony Malcolm Daniels], “A Life”, in The Proper Procedure and Other Stories, Nashville, Tenn.; London: New English Review Press, →ISBN, page 161:
      I only discovered later that he had baby-mothers all over the place. That’s why, when I caught pregnant for him again, I had it took away.
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