Talk:only son

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Rfv-sense: a male only child. I think this is more commonly used to mean the only male child in a group of children in a family. I did not find anything unambiguously in the RfVed sense at COCA. "An only child" and "an only son" and "an only daughter" are all idiomatic, I think, so "an only car" implies a peculiar relationship between owner and the car in question. DCDuring TALK 01:34, 11 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Seems redundant to sense at (deprecated template usage) only, which in fact uses the same example sentence. Equinox 15:19, 16 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
So, RFV-failed? - -sche (discuss) 04:14, 31 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]


Also note Talk:only daughter. - -sche (discuss) 23:52, 6 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]