angel maker

English

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.

Translations

illicit abortionist

• Czech: andělíčkář m, andělíčkářka (cs) f
• Dutch: engeltjesmaker m, engeltjesmaakster (nl) f
• Finnish: enkelintekijä (fi)
• French: faiseur d’anges (fr) m, faiseuse d’anges (fr) f
• German: Engelmacher (de) m, Engelmacherin (de) f
• Hungarian: angyalcsináló (hu)
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• Swedish: änglamakare c, änglamakerska c
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