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babyfather

babyfather noun: the biological father of a (woman's) child, especially one to whom she is not married.

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
    • It turned out that the guy who punched Pinky was the babyfather of a girl Tommy was running with.2012, Ben Black, Shooters: Guns and Gangs in Manchester in the Twenty-first Century
    Synonyms:
    baby daddy

Synonyms of babyfather

Forms of babyfather

pluralbabyfathers
alternative formbaby father
alternative formbaby-father

Origin of babyfather

From baby + father.

Questions about babyfather

What does babyfather mean?
Babyfather means the biological father of a (woman's) child, especially one to whom she is not married.
What part of speech is babyfather?
Babyfather is a noun.
What is the plural of babyfather?
The plural of babyfather is babyfathers.

Words near babyfather in the dictionary

  1. babyest
  2. babyface
  3. babyfaced
  4. babyfaces
  5. babyfat
  6. babyfather
  7. babyfathers
  8. babyfic
  9. babyfication
  10. babyfics
  11. babyfied

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