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daughtered en · ADJ

Etymology

From daughter (“noun”) + -ed.

Meanings

  1. (in-compounds, not-comparable, often) having one or more daughters
    • many-daughtered
    • Nine other times, six times sonned and three times daughtered, he had waited this way 2009, Orson Scott Card, Hart's Hope, page 73:
    • And psychically it all happened to Hemingway, who was never a bullfighter (although he tried it), or a prizefighter (although he tried that too), or a one-armed, two-daughtered smuggler of rum and Chinamen (which he apparently never tried at all). 2010, Philip Young, Ernest Hemingway: A Reconsideration, page 66:
    • Yet none of this achieving ever overcame my shy sense of inadequacy in not being the son our four-daughtered family needed 2013, Lucy Daniels, Walking with Moonshine, page 91:

Deriveds

undaughtered

Relateds

daughter out

Synonyms

bedaughtered (having one or more daughters)