[Lexicog] opposite of orphan

[Wayne Leman]

John, it might be that "half orphan" is an Americanism. I think I've heard
it all my life (and I am American).

Perhaps it doesn't appear in dictionaries because is a binomial and I think
many binomials do not appear in dictionaries, sadly enough.

I just checked on e-dictionary (American Heritage) for another binomial
"double cousin" and it, also, was not listed. We are particularly interested
in double cousins since two or our children are the parents of double
cousins. (Our son married his brother-in-law's sister.)

Wayne
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Wayne Leman
Better Bibles Blog: http://englishbibles.blogspot.com



> Wayne,
>
> ... curious that "half-orphan" doesn't appear as either a main entry or a
> sub-entry in my NODE or CHAMBERS English dictionaries. Are there any
> English
> dictionaries which has "half-orphan" as such? Is it a US coinage? It
> generated 873 hits with Google, so it appears to be a widely used term.
> But
> it is not half odd that it is not listed in major English dictionaries.
>
> John R.



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