A sign of the Apocalypse?

[Jesse Sheidlower]

On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 07:49:48AM -0400, Orin Hargraves wrote:
> >
> >Today, Judge Judy said ",,, established that he is the _baby_ father."
> >Hopefully, this was just a lapsus linguae.
> >
> >-Wilson Gray
>
> Or alternatively, she made a natural transference from "babymother" -- which
> is pretty well established -- or counteralternatively, in her spare time (one
> assumes she has lots) she has been watching episodes of BBC2's Babyfather.

_baby father_ is in the OED. We weren't given enough context to know if
JJ was using this usage, dropping the possessive, or what.

Jesse Sheidlower
OED