accoucheur

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
19
Words With Friends
23
Letters
10
Pronunciation
/ˌæ.kuˈʃɝ/
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/ˌæ.kuˈʃɝ/ · /ˌæ.kuˈʃɜː/

Definition of accoucheur

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. A person, especially a man, who delivers a baby (in childbirth).
    “And lastly, obstetrical chairs seemed most natural to the accoucheurs of the middle ages.”
    “Family story: on the day of his birth the accoucheur approached his father, the baby wrapped in a cloth.”

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Etymology

Attested since 1727. Borrowed from French accoucheur, from accoucher (“to go to childbed, be delivered”), from Old French culcher (“to lie”), from Latin collocō (“to place, put, set in order, assign”), from con- + locō (“to put, place, set”). See accouchement.

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