motherkins
motherkins noun: fond term of address for one's mother. Also the plural of motherkin.
Noun
motherkins (plural motherkins)
- Fond term of address for one's mother.
- 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...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
Also used as
motherkins is also the plural of motherkin.
Forms of motherkins
| plural | motherkins |
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Origin of motherkins
From mother + -kins.
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Questions about motherkins
- What does motherkins mean?
- Motherkins means fond term of address for one's mother.
- What part of speech is motherkins?
- Motherkins is a noun.
- What is the plural of motherkins?
- The plural of motherkins is motherkins.
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