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Definition of 'wean'English
Etymology 1
(etyl) wenian.
Verb
( en-verb)
To cease giving milk to an offspring; to accustom and reconcile (a child or young animal) to a want or deprivation of mother's milk; to take from the breast or udder.
- The cow has weaned her calf.
* Bible, Genesis xxi. 8
- Abraham made a great feast the same day that Isaac was weaned .
To cause to quit something to which one is addicted or habituated.
- He managed to wean himself off heroin.
* Jonathan Swift
- The troubles of age were intended to wean us gradually from our fondness of life.
To cease to depend on the mother for nourishment.
- The kittens are finally weaning .
To cease to depend.
- She is weaning from her addiction to tobacco.
Etymology 2
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Noun
( en-noun)
(Scotland) A small child.
* 2008 , (James Kelman), Kieron Smith, Boy , Penguin 2009, p. 92:
- Pigs, cows and sheep and wee ducks, that was what he bought and it was just for weans and wee lasses. I said it to my maw.
- Oh it is not weans' it is children. Oh Kieron, it is children and girls, do not say ' weans and lasses.
* Elizabeth Browning
- I, being but a yearling wean .
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Similar to 'wean'win, when, won, wan, wen, wynn, ween, wain, woon, whin, wyn, wheyn, wayn, wheen
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