mauther

noun — 2 senses

mauther

noun

Etymology Uncertain; possibly originally a variant of mother.

1

UK, Archaic, Dialectal A girl, especially, a large awkward girl.

KAS. Ay, I know -- Away, [TO HIS SISTER.] you talk like a foolish mauther.c. 1610, Ben Jonson, The Alchemist, Act 4:

2

UK, Archaic, Dialectal A mother.

Cleave to a tight ship, my boy, as long as the wind blaeth, and while she lives upon the waters, she'll aye be a mauther to thee.1823, Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Colburn's new monthly magazine, volume 7, page 230:

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