baby bump

victor steinbok aardvark66 at GMAIL.COM
Tue Aug 30 08:22:29 UTC 2011


>
>      Draft additions March 2007
>   colloq. (orig. Brit.). The protruding abdomen of a visibly pregnant
> woman; (hence) an unborn child.


Fair. Should "baby bump" be added as a variant?

VS-)

On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 3:43 AM, Jesse Sheidlower <jester at panix.com> wrote:

>
> Well, we do have _bump_ in this sense.
>
> Jesse Sheidlower
> OED

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