by-blow
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9.9
- noun
- Offensive
:
bastardo
- The novel tells the story of a boy who discovers he is a by-blow and struggles with his identity.
Examples
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Growing up as a by-blow in a strict household made her long for acceptance.
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Almost certainly it had been my mother's birth that had gotten me into the Royal School at Sordaling, for few men would feel such an obligation to a by-blow by a foreign woman, paid or not.
Fiction book (1990) -
Alaze: "... focusing on the human side of the catastrophe, he (P. Read) gives a blow-by-blow account of the accident... complete with reconstructed dialogue."
Blog text (22) -
He was ashamed to admit that he was a by-blow and not recognized by his father.
Synonyms
58
8.2
A child born to parents who are not married, now an offensive word
11
4.9
A child born to parents who are not married to each other
11
6.5
A child born to parents who are not married to each other
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9.9
A child born when the parents are not married
Antonyms
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
By-blow comes from old parts by- meaning 'beside' or 'secondary' and blow meaning 'something produced' or 'offspring'. That's why by-blow came to mean 'a child born to parents not married to each other'.