mauther
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English[edit]
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Etymology[edit]
Uncertain; possibly originally a variant of mother.
Noun[edit]
mauther (plural mauthers)
- (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.
- (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.