motherkin

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• motherkin —    The Oxford English Dictionary records vocative usage of these various ‘mother’ diminutives …   A dictionary of epithets and terms of address

• mother — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. parent, mama; abbess, prioress; matron, matriarch. See ancestry, clergy, female. II (Roget s IV) n. 1. [A female parent] Syn. parent, ancestress, matriarch, mamma, dam, materfamilias, mater, mama*,… …   English dictionary for students