bedaughtered
UK/bɪˈdɔːtəd/
bedaughtered adjective: that has or have a daughter or daughters, especially when unwanted.
Adjective
bedaughtered (not comparable)
- That has or have a daughter or daughters, especially when unwanted.
- So many successful matches were made up here last winter, that it has encouraged all the bedaughtered dowagers to bring their unsaleable commodities to the Roman market, which is now so completely overstocked, that, like a swarm of locusts, they must die of the famine they have themselves created.1840, chapter XVII, in Diary of a Nun, volume 1, pages 232–233
- Synonyms:
- daughtered
Synonyms of bedaughtered
Origin of bedaughtered
From be- + daughter + -ed.
Questions about bedaughtered
- What does bedaughtered mean?
- Bedaughtered means that has or have a daughter or daughters, especially when unwanted.
- What part of speech is bedaughtered?
- Bedaughtered is an adjective.
- How do you pronounce bedaughtered?
- Bedaughtered is pronounced /bɪˈdɔːtəd/ (UK).
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