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by-child
by-child n.
Brit. 
/ˈbʌɪtʃʌɪld/
, /ˈbʌɪtʃʌɪld/U.S. /ˈbaɪˌtʃaɪld/
(also bye-child) a bastard./ˈbaɪˌtʃaɪld/ΚΠ
1873 Lett. from Jamaica 81 Concubinage is a universal institution, and bears with it no disgrace. The offspring of such connexions—‘bye-children’, ‘out-children’, or ‘love-children’, as they are called,—generally follow the mother.
1894 H. Caine Manxman iii. xvi You'd be hearing of the by-child, it's like?
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- have a person at advantage
- have a person at an advantage
- have a person at avail
- have a person at feud
- have a person beat
- have a person by the heels
- have a person cold
- have a person for breakfast
- have a person in contempt
- have a person in etc reverence
- have a person in great reverence
- have a person in reverence
- have a person in schooling
- have a person in the palm of one's hand
- have a person on a slow boat to china
- have a person on also upon the hip
- have a person or thing skinned
- have a person or thing skinned to death
- have a person pegged
- have a person wrapped around one's finger
- have a person's back
- have a person's guts for garters
- have a person's i-wald
- have a person's iwald
- have a person's name on it