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motherkin

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English

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Etymology

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From mother +‎ -kin.

Noun

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motherkin (plural motherkins)

  1. (dated) Fond term of address for one's mother.
  2. (dated) Fond term of address for a woman older than the speaker
    • 1902, Hilaire Belloc, The Path to Rome:
      "Motherkin," I answered, "what I mean is that I would sleep until I wake, for I have come a prodigious distance and have last slept in the woods […]"
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