Lexicographical Neighbors of Motherings
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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