mother-in-lawn.adj.

Brit.

/ˈmʌð(ə)rɪnlɔː/, U.S.

/ˈməðərᵻnˌlɔ/,

/ˈməðərᵻnˌlɑ/

Inflections: Plural mothers-in-law, (rare) mother-in-laws.

Forms: see mother n.¹ and -in-law comb. form; also (Jamaican, in sense A. 2) 1900s– maadanlaw, 1900s– madan-lah, 1900s– madanlaw.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: mother n.¹, -in-law comb. form.

Etymology: < mother n.¹ + -in-law comb. form.Compare post-classical Latin mater in lege (15th cent. in a British glossarial source).

A. n.

1. The mother of one's spouse.

ΘΚΠ

society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > parent > mother > [noun] > mother-in-law

mother-in-lawa1382

eldmotherc1440

good-mother1491

mother-law1526

mother-of-law1538

mother1589

mother-on-law1670

mama-in-law1855

ma-in-law1899

mum-in-law1975

a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) Ruth i. 14 Orpha kiste hir modyr in lawe & turnede aȝeen; Ruth cleuede to hir moder in lawe.

Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 341 Moodur in lawe, socrus.

1477 J. Paston in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) I. 605 I trow ther is not a kynder woman leueing then I shall haue to my modyr in law.

a1500 (?c1425) Speculum Sacerdotale (1936) 84 (MED) The man synned with his modur-in-lawe at the entisynge of the deuel.

?1529 R. Hyrde tr. J. L. Vives Instr. Christen Woman ii. xiii. sig. o.ij^v Hit is sayde, that mother in lawes beare a stepmothers hate vnto their daughters in lawes.

1578 J. Rolland Seuin Seages 7 Praying to put, hir Sone fra companie..of Ladyis aw, And in speciall, fra his Mother in Law.

?c1663 B. Whitelocke Diary (1990) 82 He had letters that his mother in law gave out that he was dead.

1688 S. Penton Guardian's Instr. 28 The everlasting Din of Mothers-in-law.

1704 Boston News-let. 30 Oct. 2/2 The House..was burnt to the Ground in a few minutes, his youngest Child, and a Negro Woman of Mrs. Elatsons, his Mother-in-law, consumed in the Flames.

1781 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall II. xix. 130 (note) His only crime was a refusal to gratify the desires of his mother-in-law.

1819 Metropolis (ed. 2) III. 119 Tales of a take-in match and a vicious mother-in-law.

1880 L. Fison & A. W. Howitt Kamilaroi & Kurnai 203 Among the Kamilaroi, if a man be compelled to speak with his mother-in-law, the pair will turn their backs upon one another.

1922 D. H. Lawrence England my England 261 Fanny did not think her prospective mother-in-law looked at all orming.

1958 R. Narayan Guide v. 76 I'd have preferred any kind of mother-in-law, if it had meant one real, live husband.

1988 Bella 4 Apr. 23/2 One thing's for sure, Fergie will be listening to her mother-in-law.

2. = stepmother n. 1a. Now regional.

ΘΚΠ

society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > parent > mother > [noun] > stepmother

stepmotherc725

stepdamea1387

mother-in-law1516

motherc1546

noverka1600

step-parent1840

step1939

1516 St. Bridget (Pynson) in J. H. Blunt Mirror our Lady (1873) p. xlviii Hir moder in lawe.

1642 T. Fuller Holy State i. x. 26 If she becomes a mother in law, there is no difference betwixt her carriage to her own and her second husbands children.

1733 H. Fielding Miser (London ed.) iv. xiv. 65 I know the Word, Mother-in-law, has a terrible Sound, but perhaps I may make a better than you imagine.

1751 Narr. Life J. Daniel i. 4 My father being..constantly abroad till ten o'clock, my new mother-in-law spent most part of his absence with me.

1787 J. Beattie Scoticisms 55 Mother-in-law..in Scot. and in Eng. too..is often used improperly for step-mother.

1819 P. B. Shelley Cenci Pref. p. vii This daughter..at length plotted with her mother-in-law and brother to murder their common tyrant.

1847 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair (1848) xiv. 119 Miss Sharp will be your mother-in-law..that's what will happen.

1866 Notes & Queries 24 Mar. 247/1 Mother-in-law,..this name is very generally given to step-mothers in the..West Riding of Yorkshire.

1866 Notes & Queries 21 Apr. 336/1 It is a very usual thing for the lower orders in Devonshire to call a step-mother a mother-in-law.

1903 Eng. Dial. Dict. IV. 172/2 [W. Yorkshire] Mother-in-law, a step-mother... Very common.

1956 in F. G. Cassidy & R. B. Le Page Dict. Jamaican Eng. (1980) 306/1 /mi maadanlaa, mi madarinlaa/, father's wife who is not her mother.

1996 C. I. Macafee Conc. Ulster Dict. 228/2 Mother-in-law, a step-mother.

3. slang. A mixture of old ale and bitter; (later also) a mixture of stout and bitter. Also: a drink of this.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > ale or beer > mixed drinks of ale or beer > [noun]

three-threads1698

pap-in1748

half-and-half1756

porter cup1790

shandygaff1853

mixed ale1864

cooper1871

black and tan1881

four-half1884

mother-in-law1884

shandy1888

smiler1892

mild-and-bitter1933

red-eye1960

1884 Daily Tel. 3 July 5/4 Some are in favour of a long pull..at a beaker of foaming half-and-half; others incline towards ‘mother-in-law’, otherwise ‘old and bitter’.

1886 ‘J. Bickerdyke’ Curiosities Ale & Beer 392 Mother-in-law... The drink of this name is composed of equal proportions of ‘old and bitter’.

1953 Word for Word (Whitbread & Co.) 26/2 Mother-in-law, facetious term for stout-and-bitter, mixed half-and-half.

1966 S. J. Baker Austral. Lang. (ed. 2) xi. 232 Hotel and club stewards or bar tenders have an argot of their own:..a mother-in-law, a drink of stout and bitters.

B. adj. (attributive).

North American (originally U.S.). Of, relating to, or designating a flat, apartment, etc., that is suitable for use by a mother-in-law or other (elderly) relative, or by a visitor or tenant. Cf. granny flat n. at granny n. Compounds 2.

ΘΚΠ

society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > a dwelling > a house > types of house > [adjective] > block of flats or apartments > flat or apartment > type of

walk-up1906

mother-in-law1979

1979 Arizona Daily Star 5 Aug. 18/9 (advt.) Separate mother-in-law apartment, living room, family room.

1984 Guide to Homes Mag. (Gainesville) Mar. 15/3 (advt.) Newly remodeled 3 bedroom 2 bath almost 2500 sq. ft. home with mother-in-law suite and fireplace.

1991 Seattle Times 24 Nov. g8/5 (advt.) Well maintained 4 bdrm, 1.5 bth home with full bsmnt for mother-in-law potential.

1992 Down East Feb. 80/3 (advt.) Comfortable, well-kept original home, well-built mother-in-law addition, spacious decks overlooking back yard, mountain views.

2000 Columbian (Electronic ed.) 26 Nov. That's how the Lauries' kitchen became a bathroom, the family room turned into a master bedroom, a new living room extended into the back yard and a mother-in-law suite formed.

Compounds

C1. General attributive.

mother-in-law racket n.

ΚΠ

1881 T. H. Sayre Our Doctor iv. 97 Then first, Mollie is to have her £25,000. Cuttem is to marry your daughter to-day, and you are to omit the usual mother-in-law racket on him, after he is married.

C2.

mother-in-law joke n. a joke made at the expense of the joke-teller's (real or fictitious) mother-in-law; this type of joke considered (esp. depreciatively) as a genre.

ΚΠ

1885 Cent. Mag. Mar. 798 That utter abomination, the mother-in-law joke, which after years of active service is not permitted the honorable discharge it has earned.

1919 Science 7 Feb. 147 Stories of the victims of this disease too often get into the funny papers in the same column with the mother-in-law jokes.

2001 Sunday Advocate (Baton Rouge, Louisiana) (Nexis) 7 Jan. 3 h Newhart's odd brand of comedy initially proved hard to sell in a nightclub culture dominated by mother-in-law jokes.

mother-in-law seat n. colloquial an extra seat at the back of a two-seater motor car or aircraft; spec. = dicky n.¹ 10a.

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > powered vehicle > parts and equipment of motor vehicles > [noun] > extra folding seat

rumble seat1819

jump-seat1864

dicky1900

rumble1908

mother-in-law seat1961

1961 L. G. Richards TAC 64 Simple enough if you're riding the mother-in-law seat in the back end of an F-100F.

1967 R. Stein Great Cars 233 So-called Gentleman's Roadster was really an early sports car. ‘Mother-in-law’ seat was used by chauffer when the master wanted a turn at the wheel.

1992 World of Interiors July 104/3 The mustard-yellow 1928 Austin, complete with its ‘dickie’ or ‘mother-in-law’ seat.

mother-in-law's tongue n. (also mother-in-law tongue) a tropical African plant, Sansevieria trifasciata (family Dracaenaceae), which has a rosette of long, sword-shaped leaves and is often cultivated as a house plant; esp. the cultivar ‘Laurentii’, which has yellow-bordered leaves; (also) any plant of the genus Sansevieria.

ΘΚΠ

the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > foliage, house, or garden plants > [noun] > ornamental cacti

Rochea1819

echeveria1840

snake plant1883

zygocactus1950

mother-in-law's tongue1958

1958 Times 29 Nov. 9/5 Probably the most long-suffering house plant is the ‘Mother-in-law's Tongue’.

1961 Amateur Gardening 11 Nov. 7/1 The sansevieria, because of its sword-like shape has received the unsympathetic name of Mother-in-Law's Tongue.

1970 ‘D. Halliday’ Dolly & Cookie Bird ii. 15 The place was modern and airy and full of..mother-in-law's tongue in long boxes.

1991 Choice Mar. 66/1 Space research seems worlds away from the mother-in-law's tongue flourishing on the kitchen window sill.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	mother-in-law
释义	mother-in-lawn.adj. Brit. /ˈmʌð(ə)rɪnlɔː/, U.S. /ˈməðərᵻnˌlɔ/, /ˈməðərᵻnˌlɑ/ Inflections: Plural mothers-in-law, (rare) mother-in-laws. Forms: see mother n.¹ and -in-law comb. form; also (Jamaican, in sense A. 2) 1900s– maadanlaw, 1900s– madan-lah, 1900s– madanlaw. Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: mother n.¹, -in-law comb. form. Etymology: < mother n.¹ + -in-law comb. form.Compare post-classical Latin mater in lege (15th cent. in a British glossarial source). A. n. 1. The mother of one's spouse. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > parent > mother > [noun] > mother-in-law mother-in-lawa1382 eldmotherc1440 good-mother1491 mother-law1526 mother-of-law1538 mother1589 mother-on-law1670 mama-in-law1855 ma-in-law1899 mum-in-law1975 a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) Ruth i. 14 Orpha kiste hir modyr in lawe & turnede aȝeen; Ruth cleuede to hir moder in lawe. Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 341 Moodur in lawe, socrus. 1477 J. Paston in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) I. 605 I trow ther is not a kynder woman leueing then I shall haue to my modyr in law. a1500 (?c1425) Speculum Sacerdotale (1936) 84 (MED) The man synned with his modur-in-lawe at the entisynge of the deuel. ?1529 R. Hyrde tr. J. L. Vives Instr. Christen Woman ii. xiii. sig. o.ij^v Hit is sayde, that mother in lawes beare a stepmothers hate vnto their daughters in lawes. 1578 J. Rolland Seuin Seages 7 Praying to put, hir Sone fra companie..of Ladyis aw, And in speciall, fra his Mother in Law. ?c1663 B. Whitelocke Diary (1990) 82 He had letters that his mother in law gave out that he was dead. 1688 S. Penton Guardian's Instr. 28 The everlasting Din of Mothers-in-law. 1704 Boston News-let. 30 Oct. 2/2 The House..was burnt to the Ground in a few minutes, his youngest Child, and a Negro Woman of Mrs. Elatsons, his Mother-in-law, consumed in the Flames. 1781 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall II. xix. 130 (note) His only crime was a refusal to gratify the desires of his mother-in-law. 1819 Metropolis (ed. 2) III. 119 Tales of a take-in match and a vicious mother-in-law. 1880 L. Fison & A. W. Howitt Kamilaroi & Kurnai 203 Among the Kamilaroi, if a man be compelled to speak with his mother-in-law, the pair will turn their backs upon one another. 1922 D. H. Lawrence England my England 261 Fanny did not think her prospective mother-in-law looked at all orming. 1958 R. Narayan Guide v. 76 I'd have preferred any kind of mother-in-law, if it had meant one real, live husband. 1988 Bella 4 Apr. 23/2 One thing's for sure, Fergie will be listening to her mother-in-law. 2. = stepmother n. 1a. Now regional. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > parent > mother > [noun] > stepmother stepmotherc725 stepdamea1387 mother-in-law1516 motherc1546 noverka1600 step-parent1840 step1939 1516 St. Bridget (Pynson) in J. H. Blunt Mirror our Lady (1873) p. xlviii Hir moder in lawe. 1642 T. Fuller Holy State i. x. 26 If she becomes a mother in law, there is no difference betwixt her carriage to her own and her second husbands children. 1733 H. Fielding Miser (London ed.) iv. xiv. 65 I know the Word, Mother-in-law, has a terrible Sound, but perhaps I may make a better than you imagine. 1751 Narr. Life J. Daniel i. 4 My father being..constantly abroad till ten o'clock, my new mother-in-law spent most part of his absence with me. 1787 J. Beattie Scoticisms 55 Mother-in-law..in Scot. and in Eng. too..is often used improperly for step-mother. 1819 P. B. Shelley Cenci Pref. p. vii This daughter..at length plotted with her mother-in-law and brother to murder their common tyrant. 1847 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair (1848) xiv. 119 Miss Sharp will be your mother-in-law..that's what will happen. 1866 Notes & Queries 24 Mar. 247/1 Mother-in-law,..this name is very generally given to step-mothers in the..West Riding of Yorkshire. 1866 Notes & Queries 21 Apr. 336/1 It is a very usual thing for the lower orders in Devonshire to call a step-mother a mother-in-law. 1903 Eng. Dial. Dict. IV. 172/2 [W. Yorkshire] Mother-in-law, a step-mother... Very common. 1956 in F. G. Cassidy & R. B. Le Page Dict. Jamaican Eng. (1980) 306/1 /mi maadanlaa, mi madarinlaa/, father's wife who is not her mother. 1996 C. I. Macafee Conc. Ulster Dict. 228/2 Mother-in-law, a step-mother. 3. slang. A mixture of old ale and bitter; (later also) a mixture of stout and bitter. Also: a drink of this. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > ale or beer > mixed drinks of ale or beer > [noun] three-threads1698 pap-in1748 half-and-half1756 porter cup1790 shandygaff1853 mixed ale1864 cooper1871 black and tan1881 four-half1884 mother-in-law1884 shandy1888 smiler1892 mild-and-bitter1933 red-eye1960 1884 Daily Tel. 3 July 5/4 Some are in favour of a long pull..at a beaker of foaming half-and-half; others incline towards ‘mother-in-law’, otherwise ‘old and bitter’. 1886 ‘J. Bickerdyke’ Curiosities Ale & Beer 392 Mother-in-law... The drink of this name is composed of equal proportions of ‘old and bitter’. 1953 Word for Word (Whitbread & Co.) 26/2 Mother-in-law, facetious term for stout-and-bitter, mixed half-and-half. 1966 S. J. Baker Austral. Lang. (ed. 2) xi. 232 Hotel and club stewards or bar tenders have an argot of their own:..a mother-in-law, a drink of stout and bitters. B. adj. (attributive). North American (originally U.S.). Of, relating to, or designating a flat, apartment, etc., that is suitable for use by a mother-in-law or other (elderly) relative, or by a visitor or tenant. Cf. granny flat n. at granny n. Compounds 2. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > a dwelling > a house > types of house > [adjective] > block of flats or apartments > flat or apartment > type of walk-up1906 mother-in-law1979 1979 Arizona Daily Star 5 Aug. 18/9 (advt.) Separate mother-in-law apartment, living room, family room. 1984 Guide to Homes Mag. (Gainesville) Mar. 15/3 (advt.) Newly remodeled 3 bedroom 2 bath almost 2500 sq. ft. home with mother-in-law suite and fireplace. 1991 Seattle Times 24 Nov. g8/5 (advt.) Well maintained 4 bdrm, 1.5 bth home with full bsmnt for mother-in-law potential. 1992 Down East Feb. 80/3 (advt.) Comfortable, well-kept original home, well-built mother-in-law addition, spacious decks overlooking back yard, mountain views. 2000 Columbian (Electronic ed.) 26 Nov. That's how the Lauries' kitchen became a bathroom, the family room turned into a master bedroom, a new living room extended into the back yard and a mother-in-law suite formed. Compounds C1. General attributive. mother-in-law racket n. ΚΠ 1881 T. H. Sayre Our Doctor iv. 97 Then first, Mollie is to have her £25,000. Cuttem is to marry your daughter to-day, and you are to omit the usual mother-in-law racket on him, after he is married. C2. mother-in-law joke n. a joke made at the expense of the joke-teller's (real or fictitious) mother-in-law; this type of joke considered (esp. depreciatively) as a genre. ΚΠ 1885 Cent. Mag. Mar. 798 That utter abomination, the mother-in-law joke, which after years of active service is not permitted the honorable discharge it has earned. 1919 Science 7 Feb. 147 Stories of the victims of this disease too often get into the funny papers in the same column with the mother-in-law jokes. 2001 Sunday Advocate (Baton Rouge, Louisiana) (Nexis) 7 Jan. 3 h Newhart's odd brand of comedy initially proved hard to sell in a nightclub culture dominated by mother-in-law jokes. mother-in-law seat n. colloquial an extra seat at the back of a two-seater motor car or aircraft; spec. = dicky n.¹ 10a. ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > powered vehicle > parts and equipment of motor vehicles > [noun] > extra folding seat rumble seat1819 jump-seat1864 dicky1900 rumble1908 mother-in-law seat1961 1961 L. G. Richards TAC 64 Simple enough if you're riding the mother-in-law seat in the back end of an F-100F. 1967 R. Stein Great Cars 233 So-called Gentleman's Roadster was really an early sports car. ‘Mother-in-law’ seat was used by chauffer when the master wanted a turn at the wheel. 1992 World of Interiors July 104/3 The mustard-yellow 1928 Austin, complete with its ‘dickie’ or ‘mother-in-law’ seat. mother-in-law's tongue n. (also mother-in-law tongue) a tropical African plant, Sansevieria trifasciata (family Dracaenaceae), which has a rosette of long, sword-shaped leaves and is often cultivated as a house plant; esp. the cultivar ‘Laurentii’, which has yellow-bordered leaves; (also) any plant of the genus Sansevieria. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > foliage, house, or garden plants > [noun] > ornamental cacti Rochea1819 echeveria1840 snake plant1883 zygocactus1950 mother-in-law's tongue1958 1958 Times 29 Nov. 9/5 Probably the most long-suffering house plant is the ‘Mother-in-law's Tongue’. 1961 Amateur Gardening 11 Nov. 7/1 The sansevieria, because of its sword-like shape has received the unsympathetic name of Mother-in-Law's Tongue. 1970 ‘D. Halliday’ Dolly & Cookie Bird ii. 15 The place was modern and airy and full of..mother-in-law's tongue in long boxes. 1991 Choice Mar. 66/1 Space research seems worlds away from the mother-in-law's tongue flourishing on the kitchen window sill. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). mother-in-lawv. Brit. /ˈmʌð(ə)rɪnlɔː/, U.S. /ˈməð(ə)rənˌlɔ/, /ˈməð(ə)rənˌlɑ/ Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: mother-in-law n. Etymology: < mother-in-law n. †1. transitive. To exercise authority over as a stepmother. Obsolete.Apparently an isolated use. ΚΠ 1857 C. Dickens Little Dorrit ii. xiv. 443 I will not..submit to be mother-in-lawed by Mrs. General. 2. transitive (in passive). humorous. To get married.Apparently an isolated use. ΚΠ 1949 O. Nash Versus 62 Lovers haste to get mother-in-lawed. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.a1382v.1857
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mother-in-lawn.adj.

Compounds

mother-in-lawv.