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baby-mother

baby-mother is the alternative form of babymother.

Meaning of babymother

Noun

babymother (plural babymothers)

  1. (Caribbean, Jamaica, African-American Vernacular) The biological mother of a baby, especially one who is young and unwed.
    • Lacking ability to take care of his child, he ipso facto lacks authority over both child and babymother.2006, Barry Chevannes, Betwixt and Between: Explorations in an African-Caribbean Mindscape, page 131
    Synonyms:
    baby mama

Forms of baby-mother

pluralbaby-mothers

Questions about baby-mother

What is baby-mother the alternative form of?
Baby-mother is the alternative form of babymother.

Words near baby-mother in the dictionary

  1. baby-mammas
  2. baby-minder
  3. baby-minders
  4. baby-momma
  5. baby-mommas
  6. baby-mother
  7. baby-mothers
  8. baby-sat
  9. baby-sit
  10. baby-sits
  11. baby-sitted

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Adapted from Wiktionary: baby-mother (page history and authors); babymother (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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