"gandermooner" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: gandermooners [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} gandermooner (plural gandermooners)
  1. (rare) A man who pursues other women during the later months of his partner's pregnancy. Tags: rare Related terms: gander month
    Sense id: en-gandermooner-en-noun-tF9KL0uQ Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

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          "text": "He was looking anything but the happy gandermooner of the night before. It seemed that his wife was nigh on her time, and that she and the midwife were both seeing portents and she wanted a parson standing by, for her ease of mind: […]",
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