babiless

English

Adjective

babiless (not comparable)

1. Rare form of babyless.
   • 1902 February 27, W. M. Allison, editor, The Chandler Tribune, volume 2, number 1, Chandler, Oklahoma Territory: The Allison Publishing Co., page [4], column 2:

     Susan B. Anthony declares that there are too many babies born into this world. There is one thing sure, Susan has no room to lay any of this “great wrong” at her own door. This world would have been a babiless wilderness long years ago if all women had been like Susan B.

   • 1912 March 18, The Calgary Daily Herald, 5 p. m. edition, twenty-ninth year, number 3136, Calgary, Alta., page 8:

     [headline] Bayley Challenged; Longboat Babiless; Burns The Fighter […] Wants a Baby. […] Tom [Longboat] has been married now these many moons, and the runner has longings. No baby’s prattle has yet graced his wigwam. / He called up a Toronto paper and demanded that they send up a baby forthwith.

   • 1994 fall, Yisa Kehinde Yusuf, “From ‘motherless babies’ to ‘babiless mothers’: a sexist metaphorical transition of female undergraduates”, in Women and Language, volume 17, number 2, George Mason University
   • 2008, M[odupe] M[oyosore] Alimi, A[rua] E. Arua, “Gender and student slang in the University of Botswana”, in Mompoloki Mmangaka Bagwasi, Modupe Moyosore Alimi, Patrick James Ebewo, editors, English Language and Literature: Cross Cultural Currents, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, →ISBN, part I (Language, Literature, Conflict and Culture), page 41:

     There are slang studies that are specifically on the denigration of females, such as Yusuf’s (1994) [previous quotation] which investigates the metaphorical transition of female undergraduates at Obafemi Awolowo University from “motherless babies” to “babiless mothers”. However, there is no corresponding study that targets male undergraduates and describes their transition from “fatherless babies” to “babiless fathers”