babymother

English

Alternative forms

• baby mother

Etymology

From baby +‎ mother.

Pronunciation

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Noun

babymother (plural babymothers)

1. (Caribbean, African-American Vernacular, Jamaica) The biological mother of a baby, especially one who is young and unwed.
   • 2006, Barry Chevannes, Betwixt and Between: Explorations in an African-Caribbean Mindscape, page 131:

     Lacking ability to take care of his child, he ipso facto lacks authority over both child and babymother.

   • 2019, Bernardine Evaristo, Girl, Woman, Other:

     Mummy was so angry she'd said LaTisha had to pay for the child herself, threw her out after another row, ranting about LaTisha bringing shame on the family, I don't believe it, she prattled on, I've got a babymother for a daughter.

   • 2019, Barbara Fletchman Smith, Transcending the Legacies of Slavery: A Psychoanalytic View, page 66:

     She hated being outside of me and my partner in the holiday break, outside of her mother and grandmother in the Caribbean, and outside of the babyfather and his other babymother.