Birther

Quick meaning: Birther is a noun meaning (rare) One who gives birth.

Meaning

(rare) One who gives birth.

More Meanings

1. (slang, derogatory, US politics) To question the eligibility of a candidate for office or the location of one's birth.
2. (slang, derogatory, US politics) More generally, anyone who questions the eligibility of a candidate for office based on their citizenship status.
3. (slang, derogatory, US politics) A believer in the conspiracy theory that Barack Obama, 44th president of the United States (2009–2017), is not a natural-born US citizen, and was therefore ineligible for the presidency under the United States Constitution (Article II, Section 1).

Example Sentences

[…] she couldn't be an "easy birther."

Liz Buttle, Britain's oldest birther, lied about not taking fertility drugs and didn't conceive her 2-month-old boy in the usual way as she insisted.

On Thursday, he started floating a new birther lie about Sen. Kamala Harris, who, if elected, would be the first Black and Asian American vice president.

Senator Dick Durbin has suggested that the birthers and the health care protesters are one and the same; we don’t know how many of the protesters are birthers, but it wouldn’t be surprising if it’s a substantial fraction.

Word Forms

• birthers
• birthering
• birthered

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include childbearer, begetter, biofather, onlyborn, birthdom, birthmother.

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