mauther

plural mauthers · alternative mawther · alternative modder · alternative mawr · alternative mor

1. UKarchaicdialectalA girl, especially, a large awkward girl.

   KAS. Ay, I know -- Away, [TO HIS SISTER.] you talk like a foolish mauther.

   c. 1610, Ben Jonson, The Alchemist, Act 4

2. UKarchaicdialectalA mother.

   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.

   1823, Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Colburn's new monthly magazine, volume 7, page 230