English
father-to-be
A male partner of a pregnant woman (mother-to-be), especially when she is pregnant for the first time.
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From father + -to-be.
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- partEnglishfather “A male parent, especially of a human; a male who parents a child (which he has sired, adopted, fost…”
- inheritedMiddle Englishfader
- inheritedOld Englishfæder “father”
- inheritedMiddle Englishfader
- partEnglish-to-be “Future, later, expectant.”