childing

[chahyl-ding]

adjective

Archaic.

1. bearing children; pregnant.

Word History and Origins

Origin of childing¹

A Middle English word dating back to 1250–1300; child, -ing ²

Example Sentences

During the set I witnessed, there was a setlist, but he’d dispensed with it quickly, gently childing himself for calling a bunch of audibles, and that’s when he’d done that inventory of what he had already played.

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Childing, wounded, winded, wise, sure.

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Travail and pain I sing— The bride on the childing bed, The dark man labouring at his rhymes, The ewe in the lambing shed.

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With fire and sword the country round Was wasted jar and wide, And many a childing mother then, And newborn baby died; But things like that, you know, must be At every famous victory.

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The variety of daisy which children now call “Hen and Chickens” was known as the “childing daisy” in Gerard’s time.

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