stepmothern.

/ˈstɛpmʌðə/

Forms: Also Old English stéop-, Middle English stip-, Middle English stappe-, Caxton styfe- (after Dutch).

Etymology: Old English stéopmódor : see step- comb. form. Compare Old Frisian stiepmoder (North Frisian stjap-, West Frisian stiep-), Middle Low German stēfmoder, Dutch stiefmoeder, Old High German stiufmuoter (Middle High German stiefmuoter, modern German -mutter), Swedish styfmoder, Danish stifmoder.

a. A woman who has married one's father after one's mother's death or divorce.

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

c725 Corpus Gloss. (Hessels) N 167 Nouerca, steopmoder.

c893 tr. Orosius Hist. iii. vii. §2 Heo wæs Philippuses steopmodor.

c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 7197 Heore steop-moder.

c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 113 He ȝef heo his stepmoder for þon lofe of his broþer.

c1290 S. Eng. Leg. 47/8 Stepmoder is selde guod.

c1305 St. Swithin in Early Eng. Poems & Lives Saints (1862) 45 Seint Edwardes fader was þat his stipmoder a-slouȝ.

1390 J. Gower Confessio Amantis I. 104 My Stepmoder for an hate, Which toward me sche hath begonne, Forschop me.

?1473 W. Caxton tr. R. Le Fèvre Recuyell Hist. Troye (1894) I. lf. 41 His styfemoder.

?a1475 (?a1425) tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Harl. 2261) (1874) V. 273 His stappemodyr.

1560 J. Heywood Fourth Hundred Epygrams xcvii. sig. C Thy fathers second wyfe, thy steppe mother.

1598 R. Bernard tr. Terence Hecyra ii. i, in Terence in Eng. 343 With one consent all stepmothers hate their daughters in law.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Cymbeline (1623) i. i. 71 You shall not finde me (Daughter) After the slander of most Step-Mothers, Euill-ey'd vnto you.

a1692 T. Shadwell Volunteers (1693) i. ii. 9 What is that Fathers Wife of kin to you? Clara. My true Stepmother.

1865 J. S. Le Fanu Guy Deverell I. iv. 51 His mother indeed she was not; but only the stepmother of his deceased wife.

1914 J. Mackay Church in Highlands ii. 49 A man might marry his stepmother.

b. transferred. Said of a bird that hatches another bird's eggs.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > birds > egg > [noun] > incubation > bird that incubates > another's eggs

stepmother1567

1567 J. Maplet Greene Forest f. 97^v So soone as those yong can heare but their..Natiue Dams note, they leaue their Step~mother or Nurses [the Partridge's] foode by and by.

1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 121. ¶1 The Young, upon the sight of a Pond, immediately ran into it; while the Stepmother, with all imaginable Anxiety, hovered about the Borders of it.

1815 J. F. Stephens Shaw's Gen. Zool. IX. i. 76 The bird often proves a mother and step-mother at the same time, by bringing into life the whole brood.

c. figurative.

ΚΠ

1396–7 in Eng. Hist. Rev. (1907) XXII. 296 Qwan þe chirche of Yngelond began to dote in temporalte aftir her stepmodir þe grete chirche of Rome.

a1400 Relig. Pieces fr. Thornton MS. (1867) 13 Ydillnes es..stepmodire and stamerynge agaynes gude thewes.

1426 J. Lydgate tr. G. de Guileville Pilgrimage Life Man 15985 The Step~moder off vertu, And ful enmy to cryst ihesu, Wych callyd ys ‘Prosperyte’.

1430–40 J. Lydgate tr. Bochas Fall of Princes (1554) ii. ii. 44 Flattery Which is a stepmother called..To all vertue.

1532 (c1385) Usk's Test. Loue in Wks. G. Chaucer iii. f. ccclxi My dul wytte is hyndred by stepmother of foryetyng. [Cf. Higden Polychr. (Rolls) I. 5 Novercante oblivione.]

1646 J. Hall Horæ Vacivæ 15 He seem'd to carry Reason along with him, who called Nature Step-mother, in that she gives us so small a portion of Time.

1659 N. R. Proverbs 32 Fortune to one is a mother, another a step-mother.

1664 J. Evelyn Sylva (1679) 18 All sort of Clay, is held but a step~mother to Trees.

1695 J. Miller Descr. New York (1843) 10 New York, in these [necessaries], is not unkind; but though a stepmother to those who come from England, yet furnishes them..plentifully.

?1706 E. Hickeringill Priest-craft: 2nd Pt. v. 56 Happy we, that Her Majesty does not behave Her self like a Step-mother to the Moderate Party.

1913 Contemp. Rev. June 827 The monastery had got the credit of founding a school, but had really been a stepmother to it.

quasi-adjective.1715 J. Chappelow Right Way to be Rich 65 Turn'd naked into a frowning Step-Mother World.

2. dialect.

a. More fully stepmother's blessing: an agnail.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > suppuration > [noun] > a suppuration > agnail or whitlow

panaritiuma1400

whitlowa1400

agnail1562

felon1578

paronychia1598

whittlea1614

point1653

whittle-flaw1756

stepmother1818

run-round1833

runaround1867

perionychia1879

1818 R. Wilbraham Attempt Gloss. Cheshire Stepmother's Blessing, a little reverted skin about the nail, often called a back friend.

1862 C. C. Robinson Dial. Leeds & Neighbourhood 421 Stepmothers, hang~nails.

b. (See quot. 1828.)

ΘΚΠ

the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > pea flowers > violet and allied flowers > allied flowers

pansyc1450

heartsease1530

pansy flower1530

three (also two) faces under (or in) a (or one) hood1548

bulbous violet1578

love-in-idleness1578

sweet violet1578

pensea1592

cull-me-to-you1597

dog's tooth violet1597

dog violet1597

kiss-me-ere-I-rise1597

live in idleness1597

wild violet1597

yellow violet1597

love-and-idle1630

love-in-idle1664

trinity1699

fancy1712

wood violet1713

marsh violet1753

tree violet1753

kiss-me-at-the-gate1787

bird's-foot violet1802

Parma violet1812

Johnny-jump-up1827

stepmother1828

Neapolitan violet1830

garden gate1842

butterfly pea1848

kissa1852

pinkany-John1854

viola1871

kiss-me1877

pink-eyed John1877

face and hood1886

roosterhead1894

trout-lily1909

1828 W. Carr Dial. Craven (ed. 2) Step-mother, the name given to the flowers of the violet in general, but more particularly to those of the viola tricolor, pansies or hearts-ease, etc.

Compounds

C1. General attributive as stepmother dole, †stepmother shive (with reference to the stinginess ascribed to stepmothers).

ΚΠ

1483 Cath. Angl. 361/2 A Stepmoder schyfe, colirida.

1847 C. Brontë Jane Eyre III. v. 127 Nature..forgetting her usual stinted step-mother dole of gifts, had endowed this, her darling, with a granddame's bounty.

C2.

stepmother-in-law n.

ΘΚΠ

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

stepmother-in-law1904

1904 F. P. Verney & M. M. Verney Mem. Verney Family 17th Cent. (ed. 2) II. 133 Eleanor, Countess of Warwick..stepmother-in-law to the Protector's daughter.

Derivatives

ˈstepmother v. (transitive) (a) to provide with a stepmother; (b) to behave as a stepmother to.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > possession > retaining > niggardliness or meanness > [adjective] > as characteristic of stepmother

stepmotherly1848

stepmother1887

society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > parent > mother > motherhood > be a mother [verb (transitive)] > provide with a stepmother

stepmother1887

1887 A. J. Wilson At Mercy of Tiberius vii When I want my children step-mothered I will let you know.

1894 Kate K. Ide in Advance (Chicago) 22 Mar. A good grandmother, whose grandchildren had become step-mothered.

ˈstepmotherly adj. relating to or characteristic of a stepmother.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > possession > retaining > niggardliness or meanness > [adjective] > as characteristic of stepmother

stepmotherly1848

stepmother1887

society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > parent > mother > motherhood > [adjective] > relating to a stepmother

novercant1472

novercal1623

stepmotherly1848

1848 M. W. Savage Bachelor of Albany xix. 210 [The cook] obliged her barbarous mistress to abandon..her step-motherly designs.

1860 F. C. L. Wraxall Life in Sea viii. 192 The Acephala have not been treated by her [sc. Nature] in such a step-motherly fashion as might be supposed from their headless condition.

1896 E. A. King Ital. Highways 63 Alma Mater is but step-motherly to her daughters in our own country.

ˈstepmotherliness n.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > possession > retaining > niggardliness or meanness > [noun] > as supposed characteristic of stepmother

stepmotherliness1892

1892 J. Barlow Irish Idylls iii. 41 He knows what ills forthwith await him, what step~motherliness of barren earth.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1916; most recently modified version published online September 2021).

单词	stepmother
释义	stepmothern. /ˈstɛpmʌðə/ Forms: Also Old English stéop-, Middle English stip-, Middle English stappe-, Caxton styfe- (after Dutch). Etymology: Old English stéopmódor : see step- comb. form. Compare Old Frisian stiepmoder (North Frisian stjap-, West Frisian stiep-), Middle Low German stēfmoder, Dutch stiefmoeder, Old High German stiufmuoter (Middle High German stiefmuoter, modern German -mutter), Swedish styfmoder, Danish stifmoder. 1. a. A woman who has married one's father after one's mother's death or divorce. 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 c725 Corpus Gloss. (Hessels) N 167 Nouerca, steopmoder. c893 tr. Orosius Hist. iii. vii. §2 Heo wæs Philippuses steopmodor. c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 7197 Heore steop-moder. c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 113 He ȝef heo his stepmoder for þon lofe of his broþer. c1290 S. Eng. Leg. 47/8 Stepmoder is selde guod. c1305 St. Swithin in Early Eng. Poems & Lives Saints (1862) 45 Seint Edwardes fader was þat his stipmoder a-slouȝ. 1390 J. Gower Confessio Amantis I. 104 My Stepmoder for an hate, Which toward me sche hath begonne, Forschop me. ?1473 W. Caxton tr. R. Le Fèvre Recuyell Hist. Troye (1894) I. lf. 41 His styfemoder. ?a1475 (?a1425) tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Harl. 2261) (1874) V. 273 His stappemodyr. 1560 J. Heywood Fourth Hundred Epygrams xcvii. sig. C Thy fathers second wyfe, thy steppe mother. 1598 R. Bernard tr. Terence Hecyra ii. i, in Terence in Eng. 343 With one consent all stepmothers hate their daughters in law. a1616 W. Shakespeare Cymbeline (1623) i. i. 71 You shall not finde me (Daughter) After the slander of most Step-Mothers, Euill-ey'd vnto you. View more context for this quotation a1692 T. Shadwell Volunteers (1693) i. ii. 9 What is that Fathers Wife of kin to you? Clara. My true Stepmother. 1865 J. S. Le Fanu Guy Deverell I. iv. 51 His mother indeed she was not; but only the stepmother of his deceased wife. 1914 J. Mackay Church in Highlands ii. 49 A man might marry his stepmother. b. transferred. Said of a bird that hatches another bird's eggs. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > egg > [noun] > incubation > bird that incubates > another's eggs stepmother1567 1567 J. Maplet Greene Forest f. 97^v So soone as those yong can heare but their..Natiue Dams note, they leaue their Step~mother or Nurses [the Partridge's] foode by and by. 1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 121. ¶1 The Young, upon the sight of a Pond, immediately ran into it; while the Stepmother, with all imaginable Anxiety, hovered about the Borders of it. 1815 J. F. Stephens Shaw's Gen. Zool. IX. i. 76 The bird often proves a mother and step-mother at the same time, by bringing into life the whole brood. c. figurative. ΚΠ 1396–7 in Eng. Hist. Rev. (1907) XXII. 296 Qwan þe chirche of Yngelond began to dote in temporalte aftir her stepmodir þe grete chirche of Rome. a1400 Relig. Pieces fr. Thornton MS. (1867) 13 Ydillnes es..stepmodire and stamerynge agaynes gude thewes. 1426 J. Lydgate tr. G. de Guileville Pilgrimage Life Man 15985 The Step~moder off vertu, And ful enmy to cryst ihesu, Wych callyd ys ‘Prosperyte’. 1430–40 J. Lydgate tr. Bochas Fall of Princes (1554) ii. ii. 44 Flattery Which is a stepmother called..To all vertue. 1532 (c1385) Usk's Test. Loue in Wks. G. Chaucer iii. f. ccclxi My dul wytte is hyndred by stepmother of foryetyng. [Cf. Higden Polychr. (Rolls) I. 5 Novercante oblivione.] 1646 J. Hall Horæ Vacivæ 15 He seem'd to carry Reason along with him, who called Nature Step-mother, in that she gives us so small a portion of Time. 1659 N. R. Proverbs 32 Fortune to one is a mother, another a step-mother. 1664 J. Evelyn Sylva (1679) 18 All sort of Clay, is held but a step~mother to Trees. 1695 J. Miller Descr. New York (1843) 10 New York, in these [necessaries], is not unkind; but though a stepmother to those who come from England, yet furnishes them..plentifully. ?1706 E. Hickeringill Priest-craft: 2nd Pt. v. 56 Happy we, that Her Majesty does not behave Her self like a Step-mother to the Moderate Party. 1913 Contemp. Rev. June 827 The monastery had got the credit of founding a school, but had really been a stepmother to it. quasi-adjective.1715 J. Chappelow Right Way to be Rich 65 Turn'd naked into a frowning Step-Mother World. 2. dialect. a. More fully stepmother's blessing: an agnail. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > suppuration > [noun] > a suppuration > agnail or whitlow panaritiuma1400 whitlowa1400 agnail1562 felon1578 paronychia1598 whittlea1614 point1653 whittle-flaw1756 stepmother1818 run-round1833 runaround1867 perionychia1879 1818 R. Wilbraham Attempt Gloss. Cheshire Stepmother's Blessing, a little reverted skin about the nail, often called a back friend. 1862 C. C. Robinson Dial. Leeds & Neighbourhood 421 Stepmothers, hang~nails. b. (See quot. 1828.) ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > pea flowers > violet and allied flowers > allied flowers pansyc1450 heartsease1530 pansy flower1530 three (also two) faces under (or in) a (or one) hood1548 bulbous violet1578 love-in-idleness1578 sweet violet1578 pensea1592 cull-me-to-you1597 dog's tooth violet1597 dog violet1597 kiss-me-ere-I-rise1597 live in idleness1597 wild violet1597 yellow violet1597 love-and-idle1630 love-in-idle1664 trinity1699 fancy1712 wood violet1713 marsh violet1753 tree violet1753 kiss-me-at-the-gate1787 bird's-foot violet1802 Parma violet1812 Johnny-jump-up1827 stepmother1828 Neapolitan violet1830 garden gate1842 butterfly pea1848 kissa1852 pinkany-John1854 viola1871 kiss-me1877 pink-eyed John1877 face and hood1886 roosterhead1894 trout-lily1909 1828 W. Carr Dial. Craven (ed. 2) Step-mother, the name given to the flowers of the violet in general, but more particularly to those of the viola tricolor, pansies or hearts-ease, etc. Compounds C1. General attributive as stepmother dole, †stepmother shive (with reference to the stinginess ascribed to stepmothers). ΚΠ 1483 Cath. Angl. 361/2 A Stepmoder schyfe, colirida. 1847 C. Brontë Jane Eyre III. v. 127 Nature..forgetting her usual stinted step-mother dole of gifts, had endowed this, her darling, with a granddame's bounty. C2. stepmother-in-law n. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > parent > mother > [noun] > stepmother > stepmother-in-law stepmother-in-law1904 1904 F. P. Verney & M. M. Verney Mem. Verney Family 17th Cent. (ed. 2) II. 133 Eleanor, Countess of Warwick..stepmother-in-law to the Protector's daughter. Derivatives ˈstepmother v. (transitive) (a) to provide with a stepmother; (b) to behave as a stepmother to. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > retaining > niggardliness or meanness > [adjective] > as characteristic of stepmother stepmotherly1848 stepmother1887 society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > parent > mother > motherhood > be a mother [verb (transitive)] > provide with a stepmother stepmother1887 1887 A. J. Wilson At Mercy of Tiberius vii When I want my children step-mothered I will let you know. 1894 Kate K. Ide in Advance (Chicago) 22 Mar. A good grandmother, whose grandchildren had become step-mothered. ˈstepmotherly adj. relating to or characteristic of a stepmother. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > retaining > niggardliness or meanness > [adjective] > as characteristic of stepmother stepmotherly1848 stepmother1887 society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > parent > mother > motherhood > [adjective] > relating to a stepmother novercant1472 novercal1623 stepmotherly1848 1848 M. W. Savage Bachelor of Albany xix. 210 [The cook] obliged her barbarous mistress to abandon..her step-motherly designs. 1860 F. C. L. Wraxall Life in Sea viii. 192 The Acephala have not been treated by her [sc. Nature] in such a step-motherly fashion as might be supposed from their headless condition. 1896 E. A. King Ital. Highways 63 Alma Mater is but step-motherly to her daughters in our own country. ˈstepmotherliness n. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > retaining > niggardliness or meanness > [noun] > as supposed characteristic of stepmother stepmotherliness1892 1892 J. Barlow Irish Idylls iii. 41 He knows what ills forthwith await him, what step~motherliness of barren earth. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1916; most recently modified version published online September 2021). < n.c725
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