babyfather

English

Alternative forms

• baby father

Etymology

From baby +‎ father.

Pronunciation

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Noun

babyfather (plural babyfathers)

1. (Caribbean, African-American Vernacular, Jamaica) The biological father of a (woman's) child, especially one to whom she is not married.
   • 2000, Huon Wardle, An Ethnography of Cosmopolitanism in Kingston, Jamaica, page 49:

     But how do the facts about Jeanette's extended family elucidate the suddenly emergent conflict between Jeanette and her babyfather that I witnessed?

   • 2012, Ben Black, Shooters: Guns and Gangs in Manchester in the Twenty-first Century:

     It turned out that the guy who punched Pinky was the babyfather of a girl Tommy was running with.

   • 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.

Usage notes

• The term babyfather does not imply that the man is involved in the mother's or child's life beyond having conceived the child.