English word senses marked with topical category "Breastfeeding"
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Total 40 word senses
- Breastapo (Noun) Overzealous lactivists who pressure women to breastfeed and criticize formula-feeders, taken as a group.
- LC (Noun) Initialism of lactation consultant.
- Roman charity (Noun) A story where someone is sentenced to die by starvation; but their daughter saves them by secretly breastfeeding them.
- boob milk (Noun) Human breast milk.
- boobfeed (Verb) To breastfeed.
- boobfeeder (Noun) A breastfeeder.
- breast milk (Noun) Milk produced by human mammary glands.
- breast pump (Noun) A device used by a lactating woman to extract milk from her breasts (typically for short-term storage).
- breastaurant (Noun) A restaurant featuring scantily clad female waitstaff.
- breastfeed (Noun) An instance of feeding milk to a baby from the breasts; a breastfeeding.
- breastfeeder (Noun) A nursing mother, one who breastfeeds (suckles a baby).
- breastfeeding (Noun) An instance (session) of such feeding activity.
- chestfeeder (Noun) A nursing father, one who chestfeeds (suckles a baby).
- foremilk (Noun) The first milk drawn from a cow during milking; in humans, the milk secreted initially during breastfeeding, typically low in fat and rich in protein.
- hindmilk (Noun) The milk secreted during the later part of breastfeeding, typically high in fat and low in protein.
- hucow (Noun) A person who engages in lactation for sexual purposes.
- human cheese (Noun) Cheese made with human breast milk.
- lactation (Noun) The process of providing the milk to the young; breastfeeding.
- lactivism (Noun) The advocacy of breastfeeding, and especially of the right to nurse children in public.
- lactivist (Noun) A supporter of breastfeeding, and especially of the right to nurse children in public; one who engages in lactivism.
- lactonazi (Noun) An overzealous lactivist.
- lactophilia (Noun) a sexual fetish for lactating breasts and breastfeeding
- let-down (Noun) The neurohormonal release of milk in dairy cows or in breastfeeding human mothers.
- maternity bra (Noun) A nursing bra.
- milk brother (Noun) A male milk sibling.
- milk knot (Noun) A hard lump forming in the breast of a nursing woman, due to obstruction to the flow of milk and congestion of the mammary glands.
- milk sibling (Noun) A person who is not one's biological sibling but was nursed by the same woman as oneself.
- milk sister (Noun) A female milk sibling.
- milk-mother (Noun) Wet nurse (especially in an Islamic context, or the literal translation of the Chinese term 奶媽).
- mother's milk (Noun) Breast milk; milk produced by a human or animal mother for her offspring to nurse.
- nipple confusion (Noun) The situation in which an infant has difficulty in switching between feeding on maternal nipples and artificial nipples (such as feeding bottles or pacifiers), often resulting in ineffective sucking or refusal to breastfeed.
- nipple shield (Noun) A defence for the nipple worn by a breastfeeding woman.
- nipple-confused (Adjective) Affected by nipple confusion; having difficulty in switching between feeding on maternal nipples and artificial nipples.
- nonbreastfeeding (Adjective) Not breastfeeding.
- nurse (Noun) A wet nurse.
- nurse-in (Noun) A demonstration in which women gather in public to breastfeed their children.
- nursing bra (Noun) A bra specifically designed for breastfeeding mothers, with cups which fold down, allowing easy access to the nipple when the infant is to be fed, usually constructed of fabric only.
- pump and dump (Noun) A situation where a person has sex with a partner on a single occasion, without immediate intention of further contact or pursuing a serious relationship.
- titty juice (Noun) Human breast milk.
- wet nurse (Noun) A woman hired to suckle another woman's child.
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