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Definition of Mawthers
1. mawther [n] - See also: mawther
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mawthers
Literary usage of Mawthers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1876)
"Let the gals be fond on each other, poor mawthers, they had none else to be fond
on — till they had got young ..."
2. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1873)
"... in their chapels t Brave little chaps, with their cheeks like apples! Holdin on
to their mawthers' petticoats, And lookin as spunky and bould as goats! ..."
3. The Macro Plays: 1. Mankind (ab. 1475) 2. Wisdom (ab. 1460) 3. The Castle of by Frederick James Furnivall, Alfred William Pollard (1904)
"... applied to the Virtues by their enemies, is not "mothers," but the Norfolk
mawthers, girls (moder already in tho ..."
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