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housemotherly

housemotherly adjective: of or befitting a housemother.

Adjective

housemotherly (comparative more housemotherly, superlative most housemotherly)

  1. Of or befitting a housemother.
    • Then I arranged all my own and my roommate’s pillows in a voluptuous pile, placed so that I could see whether a silent housemotherly foot stood outside the swaying monk’s-cloth curtain that served as a door (to cut down our libidinous chitchat, the school board believed), and I put my hoard of...1982, M[ary] F[rances] K[ennedy] Fisher, “Young Hunger”, in As They Were, New York, N.Y.: Alfred A. Knopf, →ISBN, page 35

Forms of housemotherly

comparativemore housemotherly
superlativemost housemotherly

Origin of housemotherly

From housemother + -ly.

Questions about housemotherly

What does housemotherly mean?
Housemotherly means of or befitting a housemother.
What part of speech is housemotherly?
Housemotherly is an adjective.

Words near housemotherly in the dictionary

  1. houseminder
  2. houseminders
  3. housemistress
  4. housemistresses
  5. housemother
  6. housemotherly
  7. housemothers
  8. housen
  9. houseowner
  10. houseowners
  11. housepainter

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