Definitions
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- adjective
Born as thesecond child toparent orfamily . - adjective
Second of a particulartype to beborn to aparent orfamily . - noun The
second child to be born to aparent orfamily .
Etymologies
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Examples
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The same birth-order pattern shows up: the firstborns, on average, score about two points higher than their secondborn brothers, and hapless thirdborns do even worse.
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Most of us no longer view secondborn as second best, and few parents will admit to treating their kids differently.
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My wife has the umbilical cord stump of my secondborn son (but not our firstborn daughter, we forgot) too.
Boing Boing: November 28, 2004 - December 4, 2004 Archives 2004
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Judah, who was nothing if not practical, instructs his secondborn son Onan to marry his dead brother's wife and impregnate her, to perpetuate his brother's family line.
Planet Atheism 2009
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Oh how long must I endure these gilt-clawed turd-tongued creatures, these religious caterpillars sacrificing our firstborn, and secondborn, and all the otherborn, at the shrine of Hard Money?
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For example, the Walmart brand diapers worked great on my firstborn, but my secondborn leaked out of them so often I thought I would lose my mind-and then he didn't leak out of the Target ones, which are of comparable quality.
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