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Spock-marked

adj

Etymology

Blend of Spock + pockmarked, in reference to the influential approach of Benjamin Spock (1903–1998), American pediatrician.

Definitions

  1. Spoiled by an overly permissive upbringing.

    • Yet the fact remains that half-baked and half-digested ideas about the absolute necessity of leaving a child 'free' and 'happy' have produced what has come to be known as the 'Spock-marked child', […]
    • […] flood of child-rearing guides that had by now inundated Spock-marked middle-class parents […]

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA