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with childe

with childe is the alternative form of with child.

Meaning of with child

Prepositional phrase

  1. (euphemistic) Pregnant.
    • I would there were no age between sixteen and three-and-twenty, or that youth would sleep out the rest; for there is nothing in the between but getting wenches with child, wronging the ancientry, stealing, fighting.c. 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Winters Tale”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount...

Questions about with childe

What is with childe the alternative form of?
With childe is the alternative form of with child.

Words near with childe in the dictionary

  1. with both hands
  2. with brass knobs on
  3. with calf
  4. with cause
  5. with child
  6. with childe
  7. with closed doors
  8. with compliments
  9. with dispatch
  10. with due respect
  11. with effect from

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Adapted from Wiktionary: with childe (page history and authors); with child (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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