aborningadj.
/əˈbɔːnɪŋ/, U.S. /əˈbɔrnɪŋ/ Originally and chiefly U.S.
That is in the process of being born or created.
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1943 F. C. Shoemaker Missouri & Missourians II. lxxii. 825 Eastward movement of grain from the aborning breadbasket.
1960 Amer. Econ. Rev. 50 487 What we might have to do to maintain the aborning international financial system.
1977 Compar. Stud. Society & Hist. 19 31 A force of militia..was called by the Governor to defend the state against any intrusion..of either the Federal Union or the aborning Confederate States of America.
2003 A. Kempton Boogaloo iv. 117 Alan Freed had stumbled onto his early discernment of an aborning teen spirit.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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