† 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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