Meaning of baby-farmer | Babel Free

Definitions

Noun. [C1]

Examples

“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.”

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