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good-mother Sc.
[See good D. 2 b.]
A mother-in-law; also, a step-mother.
1536Bellenden Cron. Scot. iii. xv. (1821) I. 109 This Caratak fled to his gud moder [L. noverca] Cartumandia Quene of Scottis. a1557Diurn. Occurr. (Bannatyne Club) 19 Alex. Cant burgis of Edinburgh, was slane in the nycht in his awne hous, be his seruand and his guidmoder. 1646R. Baillie Lett. (1775) II. 187, I pity much..his good-mother, whose grace and virtue for many years I have highly esteemed. 1816Scott Antiq. xxvi, ‘Yes, gudemither’, screamed the daughter-in-law, ‘it's e'en sae’.
Proverb.1737Ramsay Scot. Prov. (1797) 14 A green turf's a good good-mither. |