father-out-law

English

Etymology

From father +‎ -out-law, by analogy to father-in-law.

Noun

father-out-law (plural fathers-out-law)

1. The father of one's boyfriend or girlfriend.
2. The father of any of one's friends.
3. The father of one's ex-spouse.
   • 2013, Lucien Nzeyimana, Burning the Last Straw‎^[1] (Fiction), →ISBN, 0THUAQAAQBAJ, page 174:

     One day, in an argument with his wife, Haydar, he made a terrible mistake. He refused to acknowledge Henock Beamare as his father-in-law. Instead, he referred to him as his father-out-law.

   • 2017, Josephine Sharoni, chapter 4, in Lacan and Fantasy Literature: Portents of Modernity in Late-Victorian and Edwardian Fiction‎^[2] (Psychology), →ISBN, 0THUAQAAQBAJ, page 57:

     In the absence of the father in his role as father-in-law to Malone, the would be son-in-law comes under the direction of another father figure, the scientist Challenger, who rather than a substitute father-in-law can more pertinently be seen as a father-out-law.

   • 2017, Josephine Sharoni, chapter 4, in Lacan and Fantasy Literature: Portents of Modernity in Late-Victorian and Edwardian Fiction‎^[3] (Psychology), →ISBN, 0THUAQAAQBAJ, page 117:

     With this exit of the normal father, the would-be son-in-law ends up in the hands of a kind of father-out-law;, Challenger whose science will lead the young man to the fantasy space and the king of the ape-men.

Coordinate terms

• father-in-law

Related terms

• brother-out-law
• daughter-out-law
• mother-out-law
• sister-out-law
• son-out-law