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Childrens

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Noun
  1. 1
    plural of child form-of, nonstandard, plural

    "1980, Mary E. Arnold, Mabel Reed, In the Land of the Grasshopper Song According to Essie, “If a man didn’t pay no money for his wife and they just lived together then his childrens got a bad name. It made a man ashamed when his childrens got a bad name.”"

  2. 2
    genitive of children form-of, genitive, obsolete

    "In this ſaing S. Auguſtin likeneth the ſacramentes of the olde lavve in reſpect of the ſacramentes of the nevve lavve vnto childrens games, and our ſacramentes he likeneth to the thinges of more profett, vvhich are to be geuen to the ſonnes of God, vvhen they vvaxe of more age, knovvledge, and ripeneſſe."

Etymology

children + -s, adding the obsolete genitive or the plural marker to an already plural form.

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