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baby-father

baby-father is the alternative form of babyfather.

Meaning of babyfather

Noun

babyfather (plural babyfathers)

  1. (Caribbean, Jamaica, African-American Vernacular) The biological father of a (woman's) child, especially one to whom she is not married.
    • But how do the facts about Jeanette's extended family elucidate the suddenly emergent conflict between Jeanette and her babyfather that I witnessed?2000, Huon Wardle, An Ethnography of Cosmopolitanism in Kingston, Jamaica, page 49
    Synonyms:
    baby daddy

Forms of baby-father

pluralbaby-fathers

Questions about baby-father

What is baby-father the alternative form of?
Baby-father is the alternative form of babyfather.

Words near baby-father in the dictionary

  1. baby-farm
  2. baby-farmer
  3. baby-farmers
  4. baby-farms
  5. baby-fat
  6. baby-father
  7. baby-fathers
  8. baby-house
  9. baby-houses
  10. baby-jumper
  11. baby-jumpers

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