motherkin

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noun

Fond term of address for one's mother.

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Meanings

nounmotherkin (plural motherkins)

plural motherkins

  1. datedFond term of address for one's mother.
  2. datedFond term of address for a woman older than the speaker

    "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 […]"

    1902, Hilaire Belloc, The Path to Rome

Origin

From mother + -kin.

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Cite this entry
APA

motherkin. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/motherkin

MLA

“motherkin.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/motherkin. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “motherkin,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/motherkin.

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