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child-great

child-great adjective: pregnant.

Adjective

child-great (comparative more child-great, superlative most child-great)

  1. (obsolete) Pregnant.
    • Swines-bread, so used, doth not onely speed / A tardy labour; but (without great heed) / If over it a Child-great Woman stride, / Instant abortion often doth betide.1605 [1578], Josuah, transl. Sylvester, “The Third Day of the First Week”, in Devine Weekes and Workes, translation of La Premiere Sepmaine by Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas, lines 693–696
    Synonyms:
    expecting, great, heavy

Synonyms of child-great

Forms of child-great

comparativemore child-great
superlativemost child-great

Origin of child-great

From child + great.

Questions about child-great

What does child-great mean?
Child-great means pregnant.
What part of speech is child-great?
Child-great is an adjective.

Words near child-great in the dictionary

  1. child-crowing
  2. child-directed speech
  3. child-free
  4. child-fucker
  5. child-fuckers
  6. child-great
  7. child-in-law
  8. child-like
  9. child-mind
  10. child-minded
  11. child-minding

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