Meanings
- rarebaby
The Doctor and I do not wish it to be understood by this that we are advocates for the resumption of brephophagy in our own country […]
1875, Edward Rae, The Land of the North Wind, J Murray, page 2661 more example
Symptoms appeared, during last winter, of the Brephomania or Fever of Rejuvenescence which took possession of many persons of both sexes, well on towards their grand climacteric.
a. 1835, “Moral Epidemics” (essay), in The Cabinet: A Series of Essays Moral and Literary, Volume I, Bell & Bradfute (1835), page 233
Origin
- Ancient Greekβρέφος“baby”
- Englishbrepho-
From Ancient Greek βρέφος (bréphos, “baby”).
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