| 单词 | birth mother |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbirth mother birth mother n. (chiefly in the context of adoption or surrogacy) the woman who gives birth to a particular child.In quot. 1906 figurative.In the context of surrogacy, sometimes contrasted with genetic mother; cf. quot. 1988. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > parent > mother > [noun] mothereOE dame?c1225 merea1275 childbearera1382 genitricea1500 mammy1523 dama1547 mama1555 genetrix1561 mam1570 mum?1595 old lady1599 authoressc1603 mam1608 genitress1610 old woman1668 old girl1745 mummy1768 momma1810 madre1815 maw1826 ma1829 marm1835 mater1843 mom1846 mommy1846 maternal1867 motherkins1870 muvver1871 mumsy1876 mamacita1887 mutti1905 birth mother1906 duchess1909 amma1913 momsey1914 mums1915 moms1925 mata1945 baby-mother1966 mama1982 old dear1985 baby-mama1986 1906 I. A. Gregory Bk. Saints & Wonders i. 11 She washed the palms of her hands in the river on the day of the feast of Patrick, and away went the birth-mother of the cold. 1958 P. S. Buck Should White Parents adopt Brown Babies? in Ebony June 28/2 It is a matter of pride with me that the children's birth-mother was Buddhist, that the adoptive parents are Jewish, and that the judge who approved the adoption was Catholic. 1988 Sunday Mail (Brisbane) (Nexis) 26 June Banning the use of those techniques [sc. in vitro fertilization and surrogacy] prevents people such as Maggie (baby Alice's genetic mother, social mother and sister of her birth mother Linda) from producing her own genetic offspring. 2001 Independent 9 Apr. ii. 7/1 Throughout my teens I tried to find my birth mother. < as lemmas |
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