† mothersomeadj.
Obsolete. rare.
Anxious like a mother.
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1840 F. Trollope Michael Armstrong II. iv. 96 I hope excuse, miss, if I seem over mothersome and foolish about him,..but he's a precious boy to me.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2002; most recently modified version published online June 2018).
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adj.1840- white-strawed
- white-tailed
- white-tailed deer
- white-tailed eagle
- white-tailed gnu
- white-tailed ptarmigan
- white-tailed sea eagle
- white-throated
- white-throated leaf-love
- white-throated sparrow
- white-tied
- white-tiled
- white-tilted
- white-tip
- white-tip shark
- white-tip sharks
- white-tipped
- white-tipped shark
- white-tipped sharks
- white-tongued
- white-tooth
- white-toothed
- white-toothed shrew
- white-topped
- white-trousered