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grandfetus en · NOUN

Etymology

From grand- + fetus.

Meanings

1. (rare) A fetus of someone’s child.
   • Has any grandmother ever said that she will soon be able to refer to her grandfetus as a grandbaby? 2000 November 9, Jenny Lynn, “Babies are babies, period”, in North County Times, Escondido, Calif., page A-17, column 5:
   • The newest family member (whom I refer to for the time being as our grandfetus) is now big enough to startle his dad-to-be with kicks and bumps visible on the outside of his mother’s belly.[…]Nowadays, it’s normal to know, so Simon and I know that our grandfetus is a boy. 2015, Kate Braestrup, Anchor & Flares: A Memoir of Motherhood, Hope, and Service, New York, N.Y.; Boston, Mass.; London: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, →LCCN, chapter one, page 4:
   • A distinguished retired paediatrician telephoned me, concerned about his grandfetus which had been found through antenatal scanning to be one umbilical artery short. 2004 February, Timothy Lachlan Chambers, “Forfar & Arneil’s Textbook of Pediatrics: 6th edition”, in Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, volume 97, page 96, column 1:
   • I feel elated paying the twenty-some dollars to insure a decent night’s rest and a reduction of bed-envy toward my wholly innocent grandfetus. 2009, Maridel Lee Bowes, “Second Trimester”, in Who Are You Calling Grandma?: True Confessions of a Baby Boomer’s Passage, 2nd edition, Sacramento, Calif.: 3L Publishing, →ISBN, section “January 22”, page 22:

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