baby farmer
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.12 in modern English
22
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
One who keeps a baby farm or does baby farming
Example Sentences
- "In that repressive atmosphere, the “baby farmer”—usually a woman—was prepared to help an unwed mother through her time of trial . . . but only for a price."
- "But in 1926 Mrs. Nat Bass of Brooklyn, New York, felt compelled to confess her deception to her husband, and the district attorney, when the baby farmer from whom she had purchased an infant was investigated for fatally starving and beating twenty-two children."
- "The rudimentary care given to these abused children would deteriorate still further if the baby farmer herself became as addicted to the potion as the babies were – as was the case with Amelia Dyer, the most notorious and prolific of the known baby farmers."