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ˈbaby-farm
[farm n.2 7.]
A derogatory term for a place where the lodging and care of babies is undertaken for profit. Hence ˈbaby-ˌfarming vbl. n., the keeping of such a place; also ppl. a.; ˈbaby-farmed ppl. a.; ˈbaby-ˌfarmer.
1868Brit. Med. Jrnl. 25 Jan. 75/2 Poor-law medical officers should have a power of entering, inspecting, and regulating baby-farms. Ibid. 22 Feb. 174/2 Children but a few months old were fed by the less indifferent of these baby-farmers with some of their own coarse food. Ibid. 21 Mar. 276/1 The inquiry has for its object the determination of the extent to which Baby-Farming (as distinguished from the practice of abortion) is carried on in London. 1870Times 16 June 12/4 Two children..alleged to have been brought from a baby-farming establishment. 1878W. S. Gilbert H.M.S. Pinafore ii. 31, I practised baby-farming. 1880Encycl. Brit. XIII. 4/2 The infamous relations between the lying-in houses and the baby-farming houses of London. 1881Ogilvie (Annandale), Baby-farmer, a woman who receives infants, generally illegitimate, from their parents, on the pretext of bringing them up, the object being to have the child removed from sight; one who lives by baby-farming. 1884Chr. World 10 July 513/3 Baby-farming was vigorously denounced. 1896Daily News 26 Apr. 2/3 The great ledger in which are kept their patiently accumulated records of the baby farmers. 1896Westm. Gaz. 30 May 3/1 The baby-farmed child. 1954T. S. Eliot Confid. Clerk iii. 94 You're suggesting that she ran a baby farm. |