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Definition of Baby farmer
1. Noun. Someone who runs an establishment that houses and cares for babies for a fee.
Definition of Baby farmer
1. Noun. One who keeps a baby farm. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Baby Farmer
Literary usage of Baby farmer
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. All the Year Round by Charles Dickens (1883)
"And yet she wouldn't want more than that baby-farmer, I dare say—not at first.
I can snare ten minutes. Mr. Tuck, if vou'd like to see her," taking out his ..."
2. The Medical Times and Gazette (1875)
"... when passing sentence on a baby- farmer, " to vigorously suppress it or
efficiently regulate it" Betsey Binmore, a baby-farmer at Newton Abbot, ..."
3. If Christ Came to Chicago: A Plea for the Union of All who Love in the by William Thomas Stead (1894)
"Everyone knows what results follow when the baby farmer is substituted for the
mother as the custodian of the infant. Much the same results follow in the ..."
4. The Seven Curses of London by James Greenwood (1869)
"advertisement columns the baby-farmer advertises for " live stock ... But the
hope that the baby-farmer had retired, regarding his occupation as gone, ..."
5. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1879)
"... WATERS, the Lambeth Baby-Farmer, who was hung a few years ago, paid too high
a penalty when she gave her miserable life to the gallows. ..."
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