angel maker

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Noun

angel maker (plural angel makers)

  1. (historical, euphemistic) An illicit abortionist.
  2. (historical, euphemistic) A person who took in unwanted children and usually mistreated them.
    • 1994, Bill Rolston, Anna Eggert, Abortion in the New Europe: A Comparative Handbook, page 237:
      But the angel maker usually mistreated the child, giving it almost no food []
    • 2020, Ana Cravid, What If You Had Been Aborted?, page 15:
      When her mother left to the angel maker, she said goodbye as if she would never return.

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