Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To accustom (the young of a mammal) to take nourishment other than by suckling.
- transitive verb To detach from that to which one is strongly habituated or devoted.
- transitive verb To accustom to something from an early age. Often used with on:
from The Century Dictionary.
- To accustom (a child or young animal) to nourishment or food other than its mother's milk; disaccustom to the mother's breast: as, to
wean a child. - To detach or alienate, as the affections, from any object of desire; reconcile to the want or loss of something; disengage from any habit, former pursuit, or enjoyment: as, to
wean the heart from temporal enjoyments. - noun An infant; a weanling.
- noun A child; a boy or girl of tender age.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To accustom and reconcile, as a child or other young animal, to a want or deprivation of mother's milk; to take from the breast or udder; to cause to cease to depend on the mother nourishment.
- transitive verb Hence, to detach or alienate the affections of, from any object of desire; to reconcile to the want or loss of anything.
- noun A weanling; a young child.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To
cease giving milk to anoffspring . - verb transitive To
quit from something to which one isaddicted orhabituated . - verb intransitive To
cease todepend on themother fornourishment . - verb intransitive To
cease todepend . - noun Scotland A small
child .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb detach the affections of
- verb gradually deprive (infants and young mammals) of mother's milk
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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And my understanding of wean is a slow removal, not stopping cold turkey.
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Tommy’s howling like a fookin wean and it’s fookin dark but Seamus can feel the fookin dirt raining down on him.
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Tommy’s howling like a fookin wean and it’s fookin dark but Seamus can feel the fookin dirt raining down on him.
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Tommy’s howling like a fookin wean and it’s fookin dark but Seamus can feel the fookin dirt raining down on him.
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Tommy’s howling like a fookin wean and it’s fookin dark but Seamus can feel the fookin dirt raining down on him.
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Weaning:The definition of the word wean is to withhold mother’s milk from the young of a mammal and substitute other nourishment.
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Weaning:The definition of the word wean is to withhold mother’s milk from the young of a mammal and substitute other nourishment.
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Weaning:The definition of the word wean is to withhold mother’s milk from the young of a mammal and substitute other nourishment.
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Clark's latest ad focuses on Bachmann's strong words against the current structuring of Social Security and a statement that the congresswoman made about the government needing to "wean" people off the program.
Bachmann Throws Bush Under The Bus In New Campaign Ad (VIDEO)
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Clark's latest ad focuses on Bachmann's strong words against the current structuring of Social Security and a statement that the congresswoman made about the government needing to "wean" people off the program.
Bachmann Throws Bush Under The Bus In New Campaign Ad (VIDEO)
bilby commented on the word wean
Also means 'child' in Scots slang, especially in Glasgow area.
November 15, 2007
yarb commented on the word wean
"I couldn't leave them to look after themselves. Look at the size of them! But I'm too old, Lanark, to be pestered by bloody weans."
- Alasdair Gray, Lanark, ch. 2
January 19, 2009