Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Containing or of the consistence of mother (see mother); resembling or partaking of the nature of mother: as, the mothery substance in liquors.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Consisting of, containing, or resembling, mother (in vinegar).

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  • adjective Consisting of, containing, or resembling mother (in vinegar).

Etymologies

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mother +‎ -y

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Examples

  • There's a Peter Beagle and a Jeffrey Ford and a Hiromo Goto and a shweta_narayan (which I'm feeling very god-mothery and proud about, since it was one of her Clarion stories and I told her to submit it, and it's one of the coolest animal/husband stories evar) and a Gregory Frost and and lovely, classical, poetic Ellen Kushner -- oh, here's the whole TOC:

    Beastly Bride!!!! deliasherman 2010

  • There's a Peter Beagle and a Jeffrey Ford and a Hiromo Goto and a shweta_narayan (which I'm feeling very god-mothery and proud about, since it was one of her Clarion stories and I told her to submit it, and it's one of the coolest animal/husband stories evar) and a Gregory Frost and and lovely, classical, poetic Ellen Kushner -- oh, here's the whole TOC:

    Beastly Bride!!!! deliasherman 2010

  • Tell her, then, tell her all you wish, you dear old fluttery, mothery poet father — as though it made any difference.

    The Kempton-Wace Letters 2010

  • Borri pretends — is it not enough to make the clearest liquid in the world both seculent and mothery?

    The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman 2003

  • Borri pretends — is it not enough to make the clearest liquid in the world both seculent and mothery?

    The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman 2003

  • Miss Effie Allendyce took her under her wing in a fluttery, mothery sort of a way with a great many "my dear's."

    Red-Robin Jane Abbott

  • The phrase, "mothery like" was almost too much for the girl who had never had a mother to remember and wanted one now as she never had wanted one in her life.

    Wild Wings A Romance of Youth Margaret Rebecca Piper

  • And such a pretty creature – mild, milky, mothery in the best sense; the best sense being that she wasn't his mother and couldn't have been if she had tried, for parents were the only things impossible to have younger than oneself.

    The Enchanted April 1922

  • And such a pretty creature -- mild, milky, mothery in the best sense; the best sense being that she wasn't his mother and couldn't have been if she had tried, for parents were the only things impossible to have younger than oneself.

    The Enchanted April Elizabeth von Arnim 1903

  • And in them she put a little note that made me cry and cry and cry, it was so dear and mothery.

    Mary Cary "Frequently Martha" Kate Langley Bosher 1898

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  • "Containing or of the consistence of mother (see mother); resembling or partaking of the nature of mother: as, the mothery substance in liquors."

    --Century Dictionary

    November 30, 2010

  • (adjective) - Thick, mouldy, as beer or vinegar when stale. --John Akerman's Glossary of Provincial Words and Phrases in Wiltshire, 1842

    February 5, 2018