childedadj.
/ˈtʃʌɪldᵻd/, U.S. /ˈtʃaɪldᵻd/ Now rare.
Having a child or children; that has given birth.
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childed1608
1608 W. Shakespeare King Lear xiii. 103 He childed as I fathered. View more context for this quotation
1615 R. Niccols Monodia or Walthams Compl. sig. A3v She..did shew in wofull wise Her childed wombe.
1853 E. Bulwer-Lytton My Novel I. i. xi. 63 One many-childed matron.
1860 A. C. Swinburne Queen-mother ii. i. 49 I had rather be a thing of labouring days Than a so childed mother.
1990 Feminist Stud. 16 47 It is the infertile woman, here and now, who envies and feels threatened by childed women.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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adj.1608- to play the wag
- to play the wanton
- to play the wanton formerly also the the wanton's part
- to play the wanton formerly also the wantons
- to play the whole game
- to play the whore
- to play the wild
- to play the —— card
- to play the —— game
- to play thevarlet
- to play third fiddle
- to play through
- to play tiddlywinks
- to play to a person's strength
- to play to a person's strengths
- to play to one's own strengths
- to play to one's strengths
- to play to the gallery
- to play tonsil hockey
- to play truant
- to play trumph about
- to play up
- to play up old gooseberry
- to play up to
- to play upon