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Meaning of motherkin | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

  1. Fond term of address for one's mother.
    dated
  2. Fond term of address for a woman older than the speaker
    dated

Examples

“"Motherkin," I answered, "what I mean⟳ is that I would sleep⟳ until I wake⟳, for I have⟳ come⟳ a prodigious distance and have⟳ last⟳ slept in the woods […]"”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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See also

motherkins Motherland motherlands Motherless motherlessness motherline

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