daughtered
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From daughter (“noun”) + -ed.
Adjective
[edit]daughtered (not comparable)
- (often in combination) having one or more daughters
- many-daughtered
- 2009, Orson Scott Card, Hart's Hope[1], page 73:
- Nine other times, six times sonned and three times daughtered, he had waited this way
- 2010, Philip Young, Ernest Hemingway: A Reconsideration[2], page 66:
- 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).
- 2013, Lucy Daniels, Walking with Moonshine[3], page 91:
- Yet none of this achieving ever overcame my shy sense of inadequacy in not being the son our four-daughtered family needed
Synonyms
[edit]- (having one or more daughters): bedaughtered