mother

  • 41mother — 1. n. marijuana. (Drugs. See also mother nature(’s).) □ She grows her own mother in a pot in her room. □ This mother is way rad! 2. n. a drug dealer; ne’s own drug dealer upon whom one depends. (Drugs.) □ Sam is my mother …

    Dictionary of American slang and colloquial expressions

  • 42mother — see like mother, like daughter the mother of mischief is no bigger than a midge’s wing diligence is the mother of good luck necessity is the mother of invention praise the child, and you make love to the mother …

    Proverbs new dictionary

  • 43mother — 1. noun /ˈmʌðə,ˈmʌðɚ/ a) A (human) female who (a) parents a child or (b) gives birth to a baby. Sometimes used in reference to a pregnant female, possibly as a shortened form of mother to be (c) …

    Wiktionary

  • 44mother — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. parent, mama; abbess, prioress; matron, matriarch. See ancestry, clergy, female. II (Roget s IV) n. 1. [A female parent] Syn. parent, ancestress, matriarch, mamma, dam, materfamilias, mater, mama*,… …

    English dictionary for students

  • 45mother — moth·er || mʌðə(r) n. mom, female parent; woman who has given birth; woman acting as a mother or exercising mother like authority; small British gun used in WWI (British Slang) v. act as mother to, protect, nurture; give life to by birthing… …

    English contemporary dictionary

  • 46mother — n 1. genetrix, female parent, parent, ma terfamilias; dam, broody, laying hen; matriarch, matron, earth mother, housewife, the hand that rocks the cradle; mother in law, stepmother, foster mother, adoptive mother; All Inf. mater, old lady, mom,… …

    A Note on the Style of the synonym finder

  • 47Mother — (1) The female parent. (2) To produce offspring as a female. To attribute the maternity of. (3) A cell or other structure from which similar cells or structures are formed. Accordingly, such a cell might be referred to as the mother cell.(4) To… …

    Medical dictionary

  • 48Mother — 1. the most extreme example of its kind: the mother of all wars ; 2. (offensive and derogatory) mother fucker …

    Dictionary of Australian slang

  • 49mother — Australian Slang 1. the most extreme example of its kind: the mother of all wars ; 2. (offensive and derogatory) mother fucker …

    English dialects glossary

  • 50mother — [OE] The ancestral Indo European word for ‘mother’ was *māter , which has descendants in virtually all the modern European languages. It was probably based on the syllable ma, suggested by the burbling of a suckling baby, which also lies behind… …

    The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins