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mother's son
1. A man. Chiefly in phr., every mother's son.
a1240Wohunge in Cott. Hom. 269 Luue iwile þe mi leue lif, moder sune feirest. a1300Cursor M. 7061 Mani modir son was feld, Als it es in þe stori teld. 13..Sir Beues (A.) 4102 Þat þai ner ded vpon þe grene, Eueri moder sone, i wene. a1400–50Alexander 1429 Þe first modire son he mett..Was Balaan þe bald berne. 1470–85Malory Arthur x. xxix. 460 He casteth that we shalle neuer escape moder sone of vs. 1542Udall Erasm. Apoph. 330 Tydeus slewe theim euery mothers soonne excepte one. 1590Shakes. Mids. N. i. ii. 80. 1665 J. Webb Stone-Heng (1725) 223 The English..massacred them all, every Mother's Son of them. 1694Motteux Rabelais iv. i. (1737) 5 Each Mother's Son retired on board his own Ship. 1865Tennyson Captain 50 Every mother's son—Down they dropt. 1896A. E. Housman Shropshire Lad xliii, 'Tis that every mother's son Travails with a skeleton.
2. A spoilt child.
1882‘Edna Lyall’ Donovan xxiv, He's never been allowed to shift for himself, he's a mother's son. |