glass child

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A child who feels "invisible" to their parents due to having a sibling with a serious health condition or disability who occupies a disproportionate amount of their parents' attention. neologism
    — On the other hand, TikTok users are sharing their guilt after learning their siblings were the glass child because of them.
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see glass, child. (a child made of glass)
    — There is a story in Roxane Gay's second collection of short fiction, Difficult Women, in which a big, strong man who works in a quarry goes for a walk on the beach and, seeing an extra glint in the sand, discovers a woman made of glass. He falls in love, marries her, they have a glass child.

词形变化

glass children plural

词源

Popularized on TikTok in 2023.
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