Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Provided with or having a child or children.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective obsolete Furnished with a child.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective obsolete Having a child.

Etymologies

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child +‎ -ed

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Examples

  • No one I know is on this show, except possibly for the very few happily married childed couples with solid jobs I am acquainted with--except all of those are also either poly, kinky, or science fiction authors as well, and those are not groups represented on Thirtysomething.

    Throwdown! yuki_onna 2010

  • It turns out that both childed and childless couples experience declines in marital happiness--it's just that the sudden stress of having a baby can bring it on in one fell swoop instead of gradually.

    Before you get your dander up Becca 2009

  • Geez,if ever there was any childed thoughts in my head,I could vomit them out now.

    Oh, Mama! Jen 2008

  • Whether you are “simply being childfree” (whatever that means) makes no difference to the childed attitude (which comes across rather like yours by the way).

    “My Children Bore Me To Death!” 2006

  • The negativity that childfree or non-parents receive from the childed is often unbelievable.

    “My Children Bore Me To Death!” 2006

  • As one who never wanted kids, it always makes me feel more human when one of my childed friends admits that the little offspring are a lot of work and you do have far more time without them.

    part-time mummy 2005

  • Also their book saith, that when that she had childed under a palm tree she had great shame, that she had a child; and she greet and said that she would that she had been dead.

    The Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

  • Also here book seythe, that whan that sche had childed undre

    The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

  • Also here book seythe, that whan that sche had childed undre

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

  • It was a wide flat cap which childed his face and made his eyes look deeper than ever.

    At Swim, Two Boys Jamie O’Neill 2002

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