Meanings
motherkins1
- datedFond term of address for one's mother.
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A distracted mother having answered a half a hundred queries in half an hour, at last implored her bright little eight-year-old to desist for a while. “Curiosity killed a cat, you know, dear,” she explained with half humorous philosophy. The little boy’s tongue was still for perhaps the space of three minutes. Then came a childish voice, low and gentle, but eager: “Motherkins, please tell me! What was it the cat wanted to know?”
1911 November 5, “Those Fool Questions—and Some Fool Retorts […]”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC
motherkins2
- pluralplural of motherkin
Origin
motherkins · noun
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
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