What does baby-farmer mean?
Baby-farmer means Alternative form of baby farmer..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
Alternative form of baby farmer..
Can't send it to the workhouse, you know, or a baby-farm, or a baby-farmer, like that woman.
Proudly conscious of her peculiar abilities, the baby-farmer made reply, "Twenty-one deaths out of a possible twenty-three in the past six months."
When the baby-farmer went to register the infant's death, the registrar, learning that it was illegitimate, and thinking that some of the statements made regarding it were suspicious, very properly insisted on the attendance of the mother before he would grant the certificate of registration.
Use baby-farmer when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Baby-farmer means Alternative form of baby farmer..
The closest synonym depends on the sentence and intended sense.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Can't send it to the workhouse, you know, or a baby-farm, or a baby-farmer, like that woman.
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