bedaughtered en · ADJ
Pronunciation
- bĭdôʹtərd (Received-Pronunciation)
- /bɪˈdɔːtəd/ (Received-Pronunciation)
Etymology
From be- + daughter + -ed.
Meanings
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(humorous, not-comparable, rare) That has or have a daughter or daughters, especially when unwanted.
So many successful matches were made up here last winter, that it has encouraged all the bedaughtered dowagers to bring their unsaleable commodities to the Roman market, which is now so completely overstocked, that, like a swarm of locusts, they must die of the famine they have themselves created.
1840, chapter XVII, in Diary of a Nun, volume 1, pages 232–233: