motheringn.¹

Brit.

/ˈmʌð(ə)rɪŋ/, U.S.

/ˈməð(ə)rɪŋ/

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: mother n.¹, mother v.¹, -ing suffix¹.

Etymology: In sense 1 < mother n.¹ + -ing suffix¹. In sense 2 < mother v.¹ or mother n.¹ + -ing suffix¹.

1. The custom of visiting, communicating with, or giving presents to one's mother (formerly, one's parents) on the fourth Sunday in Lent. Now rare except in compounds.Recorded earliest in Mothering Day n. at Compounds 2.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > social event > visit > visiting > [noun] > visiting on specific occasions

mothering1644

midlenting1720

first footing1823

the world > matter > condition of matter > bad condition of matter > [noun] > mouldy or musty condition > becoming mouldy

moulinga1425

moulding1530

vinnying1552

mothering1720

the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > pollution or defilement > [noun] > specific impurities > scum > types of scum > formation of

mothering1720

1644 R. Symonds Diary (1859) 27 Every Midlent Sunday is a great day at Worcester, when all the children and godchildren meet at the head and cheife of the family and have a feast. They call it the Mothering-day.

1648 R. Herrick Hesperides sig. T3^v I'le to thee a Simnell bring, 'Gainst thou go'st a mothering.

1720 C. Wheatley Illustr. Bk. Common Prayer (ed. 3) 225 The Appointment of these Scriptures upon this Day, might probably give the first Rise to a Custom still retain'd in many Parts of England, and well known by the name of Midlenting or Mothering.

1825 W. Hone Every-day Bk. (1826) I. 359 It is still a custom on Mid-Lent Sunday in many parts of England, for servants..to carry cakes..as presents to their parents; and in other parts, to visit their mother for a meal of furmity, or to receive cakes..with her blessing. This is called going a mothering.

1883 C. S. Burne Shropshire Folk-lore 325 ‘Shrewsbury Simnels’..are eaten by many who do not heed the pious habit of ‘mothering’ which they were intended to celebrate.

1932 ‘C. P. Smith’ (title) The feast of Mothering: how to make simnel cakes..and other delights.

†a. Motherhood. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

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

motherheadc1350

motherhooda1500

maternity1611

mothering1817

motherdom1916

1817 J. Austen Let. 13 Mar. (1995) 332 By not beginning the business of Mothering quite so early in life, you will be young in Constitution, spirits, figure & countenance.

b. Motherly care or supervision; the practice of taking care of or protecting someone as a mother.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > safety > protection or defence > care, protection, or charge > [noun] > care for or looking after

keepingc1330

nursing?1533

looking after?1537

tendance1580

tendment1597

caretaking1765

tendancya1774

caringa1797

mothering1868

1868 R. L. Stevenson Let. in Scribner's Mag. (1899) 25 30/1 Her mothering and thought for others displays itself in advice against hard-boiled eggs, well-done meat, and late dinners.

1892 ‘G. Travers’ Mona Maclean I. vii. 86 Mothering is woman's work without a doubt.

1962 Guardian 12 Jan. 8/7 During the first year twins often have to manage with less ‘mothering’ than other babies. So one should..[give] them extra cuddling whenever possible.

1992 Times 11 Apr. 12/6 The few things I regret in my life are..not having put enough time into mothering, wiving, taking care of the inner life.

c. Agriculture (originally New Zealand). The pairing of a motherless lamb with a ewe whose lamb has died. Also: the pairing of a lamb with its mother. Usually with up. Also occasionally with on. Cf. mother v.¹ 5a.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > [noun]

rearinga1398

nourishing1615

conservation1646

zoosophy1662

culture1744

cultivation1791

zoogeny1826

zootechny1841

stock-keeping1844

ranching1851

conditioning1861

zootechnics1863

zooculture1873

zootrophy1877

animaliculture1879

mothering1922

stockmanship1959

1922 W. Perry Sheep Farming 79 Working in an open paddock also allows the subsequent mothering ‘up’ to be carried out more expeditiously.

1969 A. B. Moore From Forest to Farm 80 This ‘mothering-up’ of odd lambs [to ewes who have lost their lambs] takes quite a lot of the shepherd's time.

1972 Country Life 30 Mar. 812/3 Both lambs and ewes are marked with identical letters to facilitate shepherding, particularly the mothering up, at night, which is very important with winter lambing.

1985 J. J. Stewart Gumboots & Goalposts 91 None of the recognised mothering on techniques of sheep husbandry would work with goats and we had a lot of orphans.

1995 Idaho Statesman (Nexis) 26 Mar. 1 a By now, the ewe is up, and Shirts lays her lamb at her feet. She starts licking immediately. Shirts calls it ‘mothering up’. ‘If the ewes don't work on them, they'll lay there and chill down,’ he says.

Compounds

C1. General attributive (in sense 2), as mothering ability, mothering skill, etc.

ΚΠ

1952 Proc. Royal Soc. B. 140 11 Severe calcium deficiency did not reduce fertility of the dam or her mothering instinct.

1981 F. Manolson & A. Fraser in K. Thear & A. Fraser Compl. Bk. Raising Livestock & Poultry vii. 166/1 They used West Highland and beef Shorthorns to produce a hardy, long-lived cow with innate mothering ability.

1989 Independent 10 Apr. 13/3 She had never really known about mothering skills, having had no younger siblings to learn from.

1991 A. A. Aidoo Changes x. 88 The kind of man who brings out all of a woman's mothering instincts up front.

C2.

mothering-cake n. English regional (western) a cake given by children to their parents on Mothering Sunday.

ΚΠ

1762 E. Collins Misc. in Prose & Verse 114 Zee Dundry's Peak Lucks like a shuggard Motherin-Cake.

1887 F. T. Havergal Herefordshire Words 23 It is still the custom to use or send away mothering cakes, which are made specially at Hereford and towns in this county in large quantities.

1902 S. S. Buckman in Eng. Dial. Dict. (1903) IV. 174/2 [Gloucestershire] Mothering-cake [a cake given by children to their parents on Mid-Lent Sunday].

Mothering Day n. rare = Mothering Sunday n.

ΚΠ

1644Mothering Day [see sense 1].

1991 C. Cleverly Church Planting (BNC) 39 I met Charlie, and he asked me to come along to the Mothering Day Service.

mothering pen n. Agriculture (originally New Zealand) a pen or paddock in which a ewe which has lost its lamb and a lamb which has lost its mother can be brought together.

ΚΠ

1959 N.Z. Dairy Exporter 10 Aug. 115 All that was left over from the previous day was a ewe and lamb in the Bush Paddock mothering pens.

1969 A. B. Moore From Forest to Farm 69 Picking up the orphan [lamb] I locate the bereaved mother [sheep], and, collecting her dead lamb, work her quietly into a mothering pen in the corner of the block.

Mothering Sunday n. = mid-Lent Sunday n. at mid-Lent n. Compounds (see also quot. 1838 and quot. 1825 at sense 1).

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > social event > visit > visiting > [noun] > visiting time or day > specific

Mothering Day1644

Mothering Sunday1783

society > faith > worship > liturgical year > feast, festival > specific Christian festivals > mid-Lent > [noun] > Sunday in

Sunday of RefreshmentlOE

midlenten Sunday1389

mid-Lent Sundayc1425

Phagiphanyc1450

mid-fast Sunday1480

Mothering Sunday1783

Refreshment Sunday1825

Refection Sunday1852

Laetare1870

1783 Gentleman's Mag. July 578/1 Some things customary... Of these, perhaps, are lambs-wool on Christmas-eve, furmety on Mothering-sunday, Braggot (which is a mixture of ale, sugar, and spices) at the festival of Easter.

1838 W. Howitt Rural Life Eng. I. ii. iii. 159 On Mothering Sunday, when all the ‘servant-lads’ and ‘servant wenches’ are, in some parts of the country, set at liberty for a day, to go and see their mothers.

1880 A. J. Munby Dorothy iii. 66 Mary, it's twenty good year—twenty-one, come Mothering Sunday—'Since he was here at the farm.

1921 Spectator 19 Feb. 243/2 The fourth Sunday of Lent or Mothering Sunday, called ‘Laetare’ from the opening word of the introit.

1992 Alton (Surrey) Herald (BNC) 3 Apr. 13 Children and church helpers spent Saturday afternoon making certain there were enough traditional Mothering Sunday posies to go round for mothers of all ages.

2007 S. Elkin 100 Ideas Secondary School Assemblies i. 12 Mothering Sunday is a British, Christian tradition. The Americans celebrate ‘Mother's Day’ later in the year.

mothering-up pen n. Agriculture (originally New Zealand) = mothering pen n.

ΚΠ

1962 Times 31 May 14/7 We use haybales to build mothering-up pens.

1984 Dominion (Wellington) 6 Jan. 5 In strategic places we built roofed mothering-up pens from wooden car cases for ewes and orphan lambs.

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

motheringn.²

Brit.

/ˈmʌð(ə)rɪŋ/, U.S.

/ˈməð(ə)rɪŋ/

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: mother v.², -ing suffix¹.

Etymology: < mother v.² + -ing suffix¹.Recorded in Eng. Dial. Dict. (1903) in sense 1 from Northumberland, Shropshire, and Somerset.

rare.

1. English regional. = mother n.² rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > chemistry > organic chemistry > other substances > [noun] > misc

mother of vinegar1601

mother1682

pollenin1816

viscin1838

mothering1841

xylite1843

anethole1852

hypoxanthine1857

fibroin1861

gutta1864

xanthogen1864

vanillin1868

cerulignone1873

sinalbin1875

phloroglucol1881

scopoletin1885

irisin1887

givre1888

pararabin1893

urushiol1908

silvichemical1963

nopaline1972

1841 C. H. Hartshorne Salopia Antiqua 509 Mothering, the sediment, or turbulent dregs of vinegar.

a1903 R. O. Heslop in Eng. Dial. Dict. (1903) IV. 174/2 [Northumberland] Mothering [the white mould in vinegar, beer, and other liquids].

†2. The action of turning mothery. Obsolete.

ΚΠ

1844 G. Fownes Man. Elem. Chem. 403 A little sulphuric acid is afterwards added, with a view of checking further decomposition, or mothering.

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

motheringadj.¹

Brit.

/ˈmʌð(ə)rɪŋ/, U.S.

/ˈməð(ə)rɪŋ/

Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly formed within English, by derivation. Partly formed within English, by clipping or shortening. Etymons: mother v.¹, -ing suffix²; motherfucking adj.

Etymology: In sense 1 < mother v.¹ + -ing suffix². In sense 2 shortened < motherfucking adj.

1. That acts as a mother. Chiefly figurative.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > safety > protection or defence > care, protection, or charge > [adjective] > looking after

nursing1597

tendfula1697

tending1816

mothering1855

1855 P. J. Bailey Spiritual Legend in Mystic 68 Earth's all mothering bosom.

1894 H. Drummond Lowell Lect. Ascent of Man 344 The Botanist..places the mothering plants at the top of his department of Nature.

1901 W. E. Henley Hawthorn & Lavender 30 The clement rain, the mothering dew.

1935 Z. N. Hurston Mules & Men i. i. 29 The crowd drew up under the mothering camphor tree in four old cars.

1978 Maledicta 1977 1 270 Persecution and pogroms in the 1870s drove another type of Jew from the pales and ghettos of mothering Russia, Poland and Eastern Europe generally.

2. slang (originally and chiefly U.S.). euphemistic. = motherfucking adj.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > goodness and badness > state of being accursed > [adjective] > as everyday imprecation

stinking?c1225

misbegetc1325

banned1340

cursefula1382

wariablea1382

cursedc1386

biccheda1400

maledighta1400

vilea1400

accursedc1400

whoresona1450

remauldit?1473

execrable1490

infamous1490

unbicheda1500

jolly1534

bloodyc1540

mangy?1548

pagan1550

damned1563

misbegotten1571

putid1580

desperate1581

excremental1591

inexecrable?1594

sacred1594

putrid1628

sad1664

blasted1682

plagued1728

damnation1757

infernal1764

damn1775

pesky1775

deuced1782

shocking1798

blessed1806

darned1815

dinged1821

anointed1823

goldarn1830

darn1835

cussed1837

blamed1840

unholy1842

verdomde1850

bleeding1858

ghastly1860

goddam1861

blankety1872

blame1876

bastard1877

God-awful1877

dashed1881

sodding1881

bally1885

ungodly1887

blazing1888

dee1889

motherfucking1890

blistering1900

plurry1900

Christly1910

blinking1914

blethering1915

blighted1915

blighting1916

soddish1922

somethinged1922

effing1929

Jesus1929

dagnab1934

bastarding1944

Christless1947

mother-loving1948

mothering1951

pussyclaat1957

mother-grabbing1959

pigging1970

the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > inferior person > [adjective] > as abused

lousyc1386

greasya1529

mongrela1594

shake rotten1595

strummell-patch1600

thornbackly1605

toad-spotted1608

pissabed1643

shit-breeched1664

shit-breech1675

mole-catching1693

nine-eyed1694

poxya1758

cocksucking1872

bastard1877

motherfucking1890

son-of-a-bitching1902

so-and-so1929

mother-raping1932

zombie1937

chickenshit1940

pissy-arsed1940

bastarding1944

mother-loving1948

mothering1951

1951 J. Blake Let. 21 June in Joint (1972) 21 He said if the motherin' screw ever caught up to us, he'd wish he hadn't.

1956 N. Algren Walk on Wild Side ii. 205 His whole life he aint worked one single mothering day!

1968 A. Williams Brotherhood v. 77 You great motherin' bastard!

1975 New Yorker 23 June 40/2 I'm out there cutting that mothering grass all day!

2005 J. MacGregor Sunday Money xii. 310 On Sunday six cars with Hendrick engines blew up in that mothering funk.

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

† motheringadj.²

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: mother v.², -ing suffix².

Etymology: < mother v.² + -ing suffix².

Obsolete. rare.

Mothery.

ΚΠ

1866 J. E. Brogden Provinc. Words Lincs. 130 I don't know how it happens, but we have got mothering bread in the house.

This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2002; most recently modified version published online June 2018).

n.¹1644

n.²1841

adj.¹1855

adj.²1866

单词	mothering
释义	motheringn.¹ Brit. /ˈmʌð(ə)rɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈməð(ə)rɪŋ/ Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: mother n.¹, mother v.¹, -ing suffix¹. Etymology: In sense 1 < mother n.¹ + -ing suffix¹. In sense 2 < mother v.¹ or mother n.¹ + -ing suffix¹. 1. The custom of visiting, communicating with, or giving presents to one's mother (formerly, one's parents) on the fourth Sunday in Lent. Now rare except in compounds.Recorded earliest in Mothering Day n. at Compounds 2. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > social event > visit > visiting > [noun] > visiting on specific occasions mothering1644 midlenting1720 first footing1823 the world > matter > condition of matter > bad condition of matter > [noun] > mouldy or musty condition > becoming mouldy moulinga1425 moulding1530 vinnying1552 mothering1720 the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > pollution or defilement > [noun] > specific impurities > scum > types of scum > formation of mothering1720 1644 R. Symonds Diary (1859) 27 Every Midlent Sunday is a great day at Worcester, when all the children and godchildren meet at the head and cheife of the family and have a feast. They call it the Mothering-day. 1648 R. Herrick Hesperides sig. T3^v I'le to thee a Simnell bring, 'Gainst thou go'st a mothering. 1720 C. Wheatley Illustr. Bk. Common Prayer (ed. 3) 225 The Appointment of these Scriptures upon this Day, might probably give the first Rise to a Custom still retain'd in many Parts of England, and well known by the name of Midlenting or Mothering. 1825 W. Hone Every-day Bk. (1826) I. 359 It is still a custom on Mid-Lent Sunday in many parts of England, for servants..to carry cakes..as presents to their parents; and in other parts, to visit their mother for a meal of furmity, or to receive cakes..with her blessing. This is called going a mothering. 1883 C. S. Burne Shropshire Folk-lore 325 ‘Shrewsbury Simnels’..are eaten by many who do not heed the pious habit of ‘mothering’ which they were intended to celebrate. 1932 ‘C. P. Smith’ (title) The feast of Mothering: how to make simnel cakes..and other delights. 2. †a. Motherhood. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > parent > mother > motherhood > [noun] motherheadc1350 motherhooda1500 maternity1611 mothering1817 motherdom1916 1817 J. Austen Let. 13 Mar. (1995) 332 By not beginning the business of Mothering quite so early in life, you will be young in Constitution, spirits, figure & countenance. b. Motherly care or supervision; the practice of taking care of or protecting someone as a mother. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > safety > protection or defence > care, protection, or charge > [noun] > care for or looking after keepingc1330 nursing?1533 looking after?1537 tendance1580 tendment1597 caretaking1765 tendancya1774 caringa1797 mothering1868 1868 R. L. Stevenson Let. in Scribner's Mag. (1899) 25 30/1 Her mothering and thought for others displays itself in advice against hard-boiled eggs, well-done meat, and late dinners. 1892 ‘G. Travers’ Mona Maclean I. vii. 86 Mothering is woman's work without a doubt. 1962 Guardian 12 Jan. 8/7 During the first year twins often have to manage with less ‘mothering’ than other babies. So one should..[give] them extra cuddling whenever possible. 1992 Times 11 Apr. 12/6 The few things I regret in my life are..not having put enough time into mothering, wiving, taking care of the inner life. c. Agriculture (originally New Zealand). The pairing of a motherless lamb with a ewe whose lamb has died. Also: the pairing of a lamb with its mother. Usually with up. Also occasionally with on. Cf. mother v.¹ 5a. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > [noun] rearinga1398 nourishing1615 conservation1646 zoosophy1662 culture1744 cultivation1791 zoogeny1826 zootechny1841 stock-keeping1844 ranching1851 conditioning1861 zootechnics1863 zooculture1873 zootrophy1877 animaliculture1879 mothering1922 stockmanship1959 1922 W. Perry Sheep Farming 79 Working in an open paddock also allows the subsequent mothering ‘up’ to be carried out more expeditiously. 1969 A. B. Moore From Forest to Farm 80 This ‘mothering-up’ of odd lambs [to ewes who have lost their lambs] takes quite a lot of the shepherd's time. 1972 Country Life 30 Mar. 812/3 Both lambs and ewes are marked with identical letters to facilitate shepherding, particularly the mothering up, at night, which is very important with winter lambing. 1985 J. J. Stewart Gumboots & Goalposts 91 None of the recognised mothering on techniques of sheep husbandry would work with goats and we had a lot of orphans. 1995 Idaho Statesman (Nexis) 26 Mar. 1 a By now, the ewe is up, and Shirts lays her lamb at her feet. She starts licking immediately. Shirts calls it ‘mothering up’. ‘If the ewes don't work on them, they'll lay there and chill down,’ he says. Compounds C1. General attributive (in sense 2), as mothering ability, mothering skill, etc. ΚΠ 1952 Proc. Royal Soc. B. 140 11 Severe calcium deficiency did not reduce fertility of the dam or her mothering instinct. 1981 F. Manolson & A. Fraser in K. Thear & A. Fraser Compl. Bk. Raising Livestock & Poultry vii. 166/1 They used West Highland and beef Shorthorns to produce a hardy, long-lived cow with innate mothering ability. 1989 Independent 10 Apr. 13/3 She had never really known about mothering skills, having had no younger siblings to learn from. 1991 A. A. Aidoo Changes x. 88 The kind of man who brings out all of a woman's mothering instincts up front. C2. mothering-cake n. English regional (western) a cake given by children to their parents on Mothering Sunday. ΚΠ 1762 E. Collins Misc. in Prose & Verse 114 Zee Dundry's Peak Lucks like a shuggard Motherin-Cake. 1887 F. T. Havergal Herefordshire Words 23 It is still the custom to use or send away mothering cakes, which are made specially at Hereford and towns in this county in large quantities. 1902 S. S. Buckman in Eng. Dial. Dict. (1903) IV. 174/2 [Gloucestershire] Mothering-cake [a cake given by children to their parents on Mid-Lent Sunday]. Mothering Day n. rare = Mothering Sunday n. ΚΠ 1644Mothering Day [see sense 1]. 1991 C. Cleverly Church Planting (BNC) 39 I met Charlie, and he asked me to come along to the Mothering Day Service. mothering pen n. Agriculture (originally New Zealand) a pen or paddock in which a ewe which has lost its lamb and a lamb which has lost its mother can be brought together. ΚΠ 1959 N.Z. Dairy Exporter 10 Aug. 115 All that was left over from the previous day was a ewe and lamb in the Bush Paddock mothering pens. 1969 A. B. Moore From Forest to Farm 69 Picking up the orphan [lamb] I locate the bereaved mother [sheep], and, collecting her dead lamb, work her quietly into a mothering pen in the corner of the block. Mothering Sunday n. = mid-Lent Sunday n. at mid-Lent n. Compounds (see also quot. 1838 and quot. 1825 at sense 1). ΘΚΠ society > leisure > social event > visit > visiting > [noun] > visiting time or day > specific Mothering Day1644 Mothering Sunday1783 society > faith > worship > liturgical year > feast, festival > specific Christian festivals > mid-Lent > [noun] > Sunday in Sunday of RefreshmentlOE midlenten Sunday1389 mid-Lent Sundayc1425 Phagiphanyc1450 mid-fast Sunday1480 Mothering Sunday1783 Refreshment Sunday1825 Refection Sunday1852 Laetare1870 1783 Gentleman's Mag. July 578/1 Some things customary... Of these, perhaps, are lambs-wool on Christmas-eve, furmety on Mothering-sunday, Braggot (which is a mixture of ale, sugar, and spices) at the festival of Easter. 1838 W. Howitt Rural Life Eng. I. ii. iii. 159 On Mothering Sunday, when all the ‘servant-lads’ and ‘servant wenches’ are, in some parts of the country, set at liberty for a day, to go and see their mothers. 1880 A. J. Munby Dorothy iii. 66 Mary, it's twenty good year—twenty-one, come Mothering Sunday—'Since he was here at the farm. 1921 Spectator 19 Feb. 243/2 The fourth Sunday of Lent or Mothering Sunday, called ‘Laetare’ from the opening word of the introit. 1992 Alton (Surrey) Herald (BNC) 3 Apr. 13 Children and church helpers spent Saturday afternoon making certain there were enough traditional Mothering Sunday posies to go round for mothers of all ages. 2007 S. Elkin 100 Ideas Secondary School Assemblies i. 12 Mothering Sunday is a British, Christian tradition. The Americans celebrate ‘Mother's Day’ later in the year. mothering-up pen n. Agriculture (originally New Zealand) = mothering pen n. ΚΠ 1962 Times 31 May 14/7 We use haybales to build mothering-up pens. 1984 Dominion (Wellington) 6 Jan. 5 In strategic places we built roofed mothering-up pens from wooden car cases for ewes and orphan lambs. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). motheringn.² Brit. /ˈmʌð(ə)rɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈməð(ə)rɪŋ/ Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: mother v.², -ing suffix¹. Etymology: < mother v.² + -ing suffix¹.Recorded in Eng. Dial. Dict. (1903) in sense 1 from Northumberland, Shropshire, and Somerset. rare. 1. English regional. = mother n.² rare. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > chemistry > organic chemistry > other substances > [noun] > misc mother of vinegar1601 mother1682 pollenin1816 viscin1838 mothering1841 xylite1843 anethole1852 hypoxanthine1857 fibroin1861 gutta1864 xanthogen1864 vanillin1868 cerulignone1873 sinalbin1875 phloroglucol1881 scopoletin1885 irisin1887 givre1888 pararabin1893 urushiol1908 silvichemical1963 nopaline1972 1841 C. H. Hartshorne Salopia Antiqua 509 Mothering, the sediment, or turbulent dregs of vinegar. a1903 R. O. Heslop in Eng. Dial. Dict. (1903) IV. 174/2 [Northumberland] Mothering [the white mould in vinegar, beer, and other liquids]. †2. The action of turning mothery. Obsolete. ΚΠ 1844 G. Fownes Man. Elem. Chem. 403 A little sulphuric acid is afterwards added, with a view of checking further decomposition, or mothering. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). motheringadj.¹ Brit. /ˈmʌð(ə)rɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈməð(ə)rɪŋ/ Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly formed within English, by derivation. Partly formed within English, by clipping or shortening. Etymons: mother v.¹, -ing suffix²; motherfucking adj. Etymology: In sense 1 < mother v.¹ + -ing suffix². In sense 2 shortened < motherfucking adj. 1. That acts as a mother. Chiefly figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > safety > protection or defence > care, protection, or charge > [adjective] > looking after nursing1597 tendfula1697 tending1816 mothering1855 1855 P. J. Bailey Spiritual Legend in Mystic 68 Earth's all mothering bosom. 1894 H. Drummond Lowell Lect. Ascent of Man 344 The Botanist..places the mothering plants at the top of his department of Nature. 1901 W. E. Henley Hawthorn & Lavender 30 The clement rain, the mothering dew. 1935 Z. N. Hurston Mules & Men i. i. 29 The crowd drew up under the mothering camphor tree in four old cars. 1978 Maledicta 1977 1 270 Persecution and pogroms in the 1870s drove another type of Jew from the pales and ghettos of mothering Russia, Poland and Eastern Europe generally. 2. slang (originally and chiefly U.S.). euphemistic. = motherfucking adj. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > state of being accursed > [adjective] > as everyday imprecation stinking?c1225 misbegetc1325 banned1340 cursefula1382 wariablea1382 cursedc1386 biccheda1400 maledighta1400 vilea1400 accursedc1400 whoresona1450 remauldit?1473 execrable1490 infamous1490 unbicheda1500 jolly1534 bloodyc1540 mangy?1548 pagan1550 damned1563 misbegotten1571 putid1580 desperate1581 excremental1591 inexecrable?1594 sacred1594 putrid1628 sad1664 blasted1682 plagued1728 damnation1757 infernal1764 damn1775 pesky1775 deuced1782 shocking1798 blessed1806 darned1815 dinged1821 anointed1823 goldarn1830 darn1835 cussed1837 blamed1840 unholy1842 verdomde1850 bleeding1858 ghastly1860 goddam1861 blankety1872 blame1876 bastard1877 God-awful1877 dashed1881 sodding1881 bally1885 ungodly1887 blazing1888 dee1889 motherfucking1890 blistering1900 plurry1900 Christly1910 blinking1914 blethering1915 blighted1915 blighting1916 soddish1922 somethinged1922 effing1929 Jesus1929 dagnab1934 bastarding1944 Christless1947 mother-loving1948 mothering1951 pussyclaat1957 mother-grabbing1959 pigging1970 the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > inferior person > [adjective] > as abused lousyc1386 greasya1529 mongrela1594 shake rotten1595 strummell-patch1600 thornbackly1605 toad-spotted1608 pissabed1643 shit-breeched1664 shit-breech1675 mole-catching1693 nine-eyed1694 poxya1758 cocksucking1872 bastard1877 motherfucking1890 son-of-a-bitching1902 so-and-so1929 mother-raping1932 zombie1937 chickenshit1940 pissy-arsed1940 bastarding1944 mother-loving1948 mothering1951 1951 J. Blake Let. 21 June in Joint (1972) 21 He said if the motherin' screw ever caught up to us, he'd wish he hadn't. 1956 N. Algren Walk on Wild Side ii. 205 His whole life he aint worked one single mothering day! 1968 A. Williams Brotherhood v. 77 You great motherin' bastard! 1975 New Yorker 23 June 40/2 I'm out there cutting that mothering grass all day! 2005 J. MacGregor Sunday Money xii. 310 On Sunday six cars with Hendrick engines blew up in that mothering funk. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † motheringadj.² Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: mother v.², -ing suffix². Etymology: < mother v.² + -ing suffix². Obsolete. rare. Mothery. ΚΠ 1866 J. E. Brogden Provinc. Words Lincs. 130 I don't know how it happens, but we have got mothering bread in the house. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2002; most recently modified version published online June 2018). < n.¹1644n.²1841adj.¹1855adj.²1866
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