| 单词 | midder case |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmidder case A midwifery case, a delivery of a child (more fully midder case); (also) midwifery. ΘΚΠ the world > life > source or principle of life > birth > confinement > [noun] > childbirth or delivery > by midwife midwifinga1382 delivery1719 midder1909 1909 A. M. N. Lyons Sixpenny Pieces iii. 23 It was no good waiting breakfast for Fatty..because Fatty's ‘call’ was a ‘midder’. 1931 ‘F. Iles’ Malice Aforethought iv. 78 Dr. Bickleigh was wishing that a call would reach him.., a midder-case even. 1937 A. J. Cronin Citadel ii. vii. 153 We can't go! I've got a positive conviction I'm having a midder case next Sunday evening! 1948 M. Allingham More Work for Undertaker xxiv. 279 You've got a midder, you say, doctor? 1965 M. Polland Thicker than Water (1967) iii. 29 Although he..did his medicine in Edinburgh, he came here to the Rotunda for his midder. < as lemmas |
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