Motherkin
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 Fond term of address for one's mother. dated
- 2 Fond term of address for a woman older than the speaker dated
""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 […]""
Example
More examples""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 […]""
Etymology
From mother + -kin.
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