Definition of Motherings

1. mothering [n] - See also: mothering

Lexicographical Neighbors of Motherings

motherf****rs
motherferyers
motherhood
motherhood and apple pie
motherhood statement
motherhoods
motherhouse
motherhouses
mothering
motherings (current term)
motherish
motherland
motherlands
motherless
motherlessness
motherlike
motherliness
motherlinesses
motherload
motherloads
motherlode
motherlodes
motherly

Literary usage of Motherings

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. New England: What it is and what it is to be by Boston Chamber of Commerce (1911)
"... the tremulous first breath of universal political freedom, the motherings of a new continent, the adolescence of America, the nourishing of the nation, ..."

2. A Supplementary English Glossary by Thomas Lewis Owen Davies (1881)
"WELTED, ropy, or stringy ; containing "the motherings." In Middlesex the word = flabby, not crisp, and is specially used of stale cucumbers. ..."

3. Helping France: The Red Cross in the Devastated Area by Ruth Louise Gaines (1919)
"The proper steps in order to effect these adoptions and god-motherings have been drawn up hi an accompanying recommendation of the High Committee of the ..."

4. Gloucestershire Notes and Queries: An Illustrated Quarterly Magazine Devoted edited by William Phillimore Watts Phillimore, Sidney Joseph Madge (1890)
"The old landlady who nearly twenty years ago dispensed these " motherings," was then over ninety, and has passed away ; l)ut I am told that the custom still ..."

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