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babyfather en · NOUN

Pronunciation

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Etymology

From baby + father.

Meanings

1. (Caribbean, Jamaica, qualifier:African-American Vernacular) The biological father of a (woman's) child, especially one to whom she is not married.
   • But how do the facts about Jeanette's extended family elucidate the suddenly emergent conflict between Jeanette and her babyfather that I witnessed? 2000, Huon Wardle, An Ethnography of Cosmopolitanism in Kingston, Jamaica, page 49:
   • She hated being outside of me and my partner in the holiday break, outside of her mother and grandmother in the Caribbean, and outside of the babyfather and his other babymother. 2019, Barbara Fletchman Smith, Transcending the Legacies of Slavery: A Psychoanalytic View, page 66:
   • It turned out that the guy who punched Pinky was the babyfather of a girl Tommy was running with. 2012, Ben Black, Shooters: Guns and Gangs in Manchester in the Twenty-first Century:

Forms

Coordinates

babymother

Synonyms

baby daddy