Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Thick, like mother; viscid.
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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
mother . - adjective Thick, like
mother (film or membrane on fermented liquids);viscid .
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Examples
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Unlike men, who continue to be "mothered" -- by their wives, secretaries -- women are expected to relinquish that and provide it for others. "
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Michele Willens 2010
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Unlike men, who continue to be "mothered" -- by their wives, secretaries -- women are expected to relinquish that and provide it for others. "
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Unlike men, who continue to be "mothered" -- by their wives, secretaries -- women are expected to relinquish that and provide it for others. "
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Unlike men, who continue to be "mothered" -- by their wives, secretaries -- women are expected to relinquish that and provide it for others. "
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Michele Willens 2010
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With a sister some 13 years older than he was, Leo was "mothered" by the two women in his family as he grew up.
Archive 2008-11-01 Bea Amaya 2008
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With a sister some 13 years older than he was, Leo was "mothered" by the two women in his family as he grew up.
Happy Birthday (Nov. 26) Leo!!! Bea Amaya 2008
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Every baby should be "mothered" more and mauled less.
Searchlights on Health The Science of Eugenics B. G. Jefferis
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A good relative 'mothered' the books for him in his absence.
The Bibliotaph and Other People Leon H. Vincent
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I carried him indoors, and "mothered" the little helpless thing as well as I could, by feeding him with hard-boiled yolk of egg mixed with brown bread and water.
Wild Nature Won By Kindness Elizabeth Brightwen
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The women "mothered" him, setting his belongings to rights at stated intervals, for he was not conspicuous for orderliness.
Roosevelt in the Bad Lands Hermann Hagedorn 1923
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