mauther

English

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Etymology

Uncertain; possibly originally a variant of mother.

Noun

mauther (plural mauthers)

  1. (archaic, UK, dialect) A girl, especially, a large awkward girl.
    • c.1610, Ben Jonson, The Alchemist, Act 4,
      KAS. Ay, I know -- Away, [TO HIS SISTER.] you talk like a foolish mauther.
  2. (archaic, UK, dialect) A mother.
    • 1823, Thomas Campbell; Samuel Carter Hall; Edward Bulwer Lytton, Colburn's new monthly magazine, volume 7, page 230:
      Cleave to a tight ship, my boy, as long as the wind blaeth, and while she lives upon the waters, she'll aye be a mauther to thee.

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