Usually means: Sympathetic pregnancy symptoms in men.
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  2. couvade: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. couvade: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. couvade: Collins English Dictionary
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  7. couvade: Wiktionary
  8. couvade: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
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  10. couvade: Dictionary.com
  11. Couvade: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Couvade: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. couvade: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. couvade: Rhymezone
  15. Couvade: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. Couvade: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  17. couvade: FreeDictionary.org
  18. couvade: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  19. couvade: Mnemonic Dictionary
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Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. couvade: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
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  3. Pregnancy & Baby (No longer online)
  4. couvade: Medical dictionary

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  1. Glossary of Unusual Sexual Practices (No longer online)
  2. couvade: A Word A Day

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Definitions from Wiktionary (couvade)

noun:  A practice among some peoples, such as the Basques, of the husband of a woman in the last stages of pregnancy taking to bed, avoiding certain foods, or imitating other behaviours of a pregnant woman.
noun:  Sympathetic pregnancy: the involuntary sympathetic experience of the husband of symptoms of his wife's pregnancy, such as weight gain or morning sickness.

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