couvade

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Definition von couvade im Englisch Englisch wörterbuch

sympathetic pregnancy: the involuntary sympathetic experience of the husband of symptoms of his wife's pregnancy, such as weight gain or morning sickness

A practice among some peoples, such as the Basques, of the husband of a woman in the last stages of pregnancy taking to bed, avoiding certain foods, or imitating other behaviours of a pregnant woman

A custom, among certain barbarous tribes, that when a woman gives birth to a child her husband takes to his bed, as if ill

{i} custom common among some peoples in which a father takes to his bed and acts out the birth experience after his wife bears a child

a custom among some peoples whereby the husband of a pregnant wife is put to bed at the time of bearing the child

Silbentrennung

cou·vade

Etymologie

[ kü-'väd ] (noun.) 1865. From French couvade (“brooding”)