soninlaw

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soninlaw

  1. (rare, nonstandard) Alternative form of son-in-law
    • 1915 July 20, The Day Book[1], Chicago, →ISSN:
      this feller was being sood for devorse from his friend wife and the wife's mother was on the witness stand ripping her soninlaw into 40-leven peaces
    • 1920 June 24, “The Soninlaw”, in The Tabor Independent[2], Tabor, SD, →ISSN:
      If his fatherinlaw takes him in business, the soninlaw is a sissy; if he doesn't, it is because the soninlaw is a thief. If he spends his wife's money, he is scorned as a parasite; if he advises saving it, he is reviled as a tight-ward.
    • 1923 December 27, “Mrs. Wertz Admitted Shooting Husband—Soninlaw is Convicted”, in The Frontier[3], O'Neill, NE, →ISSN:
      The soninlaw, tried some months ago, was found guilty and is now serving a life term in the penitentiary at Fort Madison.
    • 1950 May 27, The Miami Times, Miami, →ISSN, page 7:
      Mrs. Ethel Gallagher left the city on Monday morning for Detroit where she will visit her daughter and soninlaw and grand baby. Friends wish Mrs. Galagher[sic] a pleasant trip.
    • 1999 December 16, MomS...(at)webtv.net, “Family Doctor”, in alt.support.diabetes[4] (Usenet):
      As you might realize, there are a few, especially older doctors out there who just don't keep up. I have 2 physician soninlaws who both practice away from this area, and I'd like to believe they do.
    • 2001 December 7, Robert Baker, “My 2 cents”, in alt.sports.hockey.nhl.buffalo-sabres[5] (Usenet):
      I have been a Sabres fan since they started and continue to watch them on the dish down here. As I type this, my soninlaw and grandaughter are watching the Sabres and Av's at HSBC Arens.
    • 2004 [1957], John Dos Passos, The Men Who Made the Nation, 1st shortrun edition, Garden City, NY: Doubleday, →ISBN, page 11:
      It is hard to tell whether General Schuyler or his pretty daughters were most impressed by the energetic young officer; when Hamilton asked Elizabeth Schuyler to marry him, General Schuyler accepted him as a soninlaw with almost boyish enthusiasm.
    • 2004 April 28, dies...(at)earthlink.net, “Anyone seen a Passat TDI yet?”, in rec.autos.makers.vw.watercooled[6] (Usenet):
      BTW please ignore the email address in the original post. My soninlaw tends to like to play "funny" jokes with my email and news group settings. He is kind of a computer geek.
    • 2004 October 22, Thankyou4beinAFriend, “Going NUTS here!!”, in alt.wisdom[7] (Usenet):
      My soninlaw's Dad (lives here too) has had season tix to the Red Sox all his life and he bet on the Red Sox to go to the World Series before the season started. He is now VERY RICH <g> because of that bet!