mooder

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Middle English[edit]

Noun[edit]

mooder

  1. Alternative form of moder
    • late 14th century, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Clerk's Tale, The Canterbury Tales, line 563:
      [...] Wel mighte a mooder than han cryed ‘allas!’
      [...] Well might a mother then have cried ‘alas!’