love child
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See also: lovechild and love-child
English
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]love child (plural love children)
- (euphemistic) A child born as a result of a romantic liaison between parents not married to one another; an illegitimate child.
- Synonyms: bastard; see also Thesaurus:bastard
- 1841, Charles Dickens, chapter 36, in The Old Curiosity Shop:
- Nobody ever came to see her, nobody spoke of her, nobody cared about her. Mr Brass had said once, that he believed she was a ‘love-child’ (which means anything but a child of love).
- 1968, “Love Child”, performed by The Supremes:
- Love child, never meant to be / Love child, born in poverty
Translations
[edit]child born as a result of a romantic liaison between unmarried parents
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