Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A mother-in-law.
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Examples
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Carrie looked at Tem and Dallas staring at them in big-eyed wonder and tried to put on a good-mother face.
Eternity Jude Deveraux 1992
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Carrie looked at Tem and Dallas staring at them in big-eyed wonder and tried to put on a good-mother face.
Eternity Jude Deveraux 1992
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Has the leech let blood to thy good-mother, Susan?
Unknown to History: a story of the captivity of Mary of Scotland Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862
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Lye said they were _quasi_ good-father and good-mother; Somner, that they were the Anglo-Saxon
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"But it's true, too, as Hiram Crombie's no owerfond of the auld bes-er, his good-mother.
A Breath of Snow and Ashes Gabaldon, Diana 2005
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( "hellcat" Ida & slapping prostitute), and (as you suggest) combination good-mother/bad-mother (Peggy).
CHE > Latest news 2010
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( "hellcat" Ida & slapping prostitute), and (as you suggest) combination good-mother/bad-mother (Peggy).
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