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earth-motherly

earth-motherly adjective: in the manner of an earth mother.

Adjective

earth-motherly (comparative more earth-motherly, superlative most earth-motherly)

  1. In the manner of an earth mother.
    • She was possessed in an earth-motherly way, never out of control or raging, even when she was loud.2013, Lauren Drain, Banished: Surviving My Years In The Westboro Baptist Church, Grand Central Publishing, →ISBN, page 72

Forms of earth-motherly

comparativemore earth-motherly
superlativemost earth-motherly

Questions about earth-motherly

What does earth-motherly mean?
Earth-motherly means in the manner of an earth mother.
What part of speech is earth-motherly?
Earth-motherly is an adjective.

Words near earth-motherly in the dictionary

  1. Earth-grazing fireballs
  2. earth-hog
  3. earth-hogs
  4. earth-hunger
  5. earth-like
  6. earth-motherly
  7. earth-moving
  8. Earth-normal
  9. earth-nut
  10. earth-pig
  11. earth-pigs

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