soninlaw
English
editNoun
editsoninlaw
- (rare, nonstandard) Alternative form of son-in-law
- 1920 June 24, “The Soninlaw”, in The Tabor Independent[2], Tabor, SD, →ISSN:
- If his fatherinlaw takes him in business, the soninlaw is a sissy; if he doesn't, it is because the soninlaw is a thief. If he spends his wife's money, he is scorned as a parasite; if he advises saving it, he is reviled as a tight-ward.
- 2004 [1957], John Dos Passos, The Men Who Made the Nation, 1st shortrun edition, Garden City, NY: Doubleday, →ISBN, page 11:
- It is hard to tell whether General Schuyler or his pretty daughters were most impressed by the energetic young officer; when Hamilton asked Elizabeth Schuyler to marry him, General Schuyler accepted him as a soninlaw with almost boyish enthusiasm.