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By-blow

By-blow Meaning & Definition
By-blow Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of By-blow?

[n] the illegitimate offspring of unmarried parents

Synonyms | Synonyms for By-blow: bastard | illegitimate | illegitimate child | love child | whoreson

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See Also | issue | offspring | progeny

By-blow In Webster's Dictionary

\By"-blow`\, n. 1. A side or incidental blow; an accidental blow. With their by-blows they did split the very stones in pieces. --Bunyan. 2. An illegitimate child; a bastard. The Aga speedily . . . brought her [his disgraced slave] to court, together with her pretty by-blow, the present Padre Ottomano. --Evelyn.

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