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Definition: MOTHERING |
MOTHERINGNoun1. A rural custom in England, of visiting one's parents on Midlent Sunday, -- supposed to have been originally visiting the mother church to make offerings at the high altar. Personal pronoun & verb & noun1. Of Mother |
Date "MOTHERING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1907. (references) |
Crosswords: MOTHERING |
| Specialty definitions using "MOTHERING": Mid-Lent Sunday, Mothering Sunday. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Mothering Heart (1913) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | The art of mothering...breastfeed your baby. / Mary Cassatt. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Dennis Miller | There's nothing I love better than going through a drive-thru window on a cold day, getting that perfectly balanced bag, setting it between my legs and driving away while that mothering heat radiates through my lower extremities. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "MOTHERING" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 40.00% of the time. "MOTHERING" is used about 45 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 40% | 18 | 82,615 |
| Noun (proper) | 26.67% | 12 | 101,599 |
| Noun (singular) | 22.22% | 10 | 111,207 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 11.11% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Total | 100.00% | 45 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "MOTHERING": mothering sunday. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "MOTHERING": all-mothering, substitute-mothering. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
mothering | 366 |
mothering magazine | 59 |
surrogate mothering | 7 |
natural mothering | 4 |
mothering step | 2 |
mothering sunday | 2 |
christian mothering | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "MOTHERING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | kujdes nëne. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 保育照管 (Mothered). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | moderomsorg, moderlig behandling. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | moederlijke zorgen, bemoedering. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | hoitokyky (maternal quality, mothering quality), emo-ominaisuus (maternal quality, mothering quality). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | maternage, soins maternels. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | mütterliche Betreuung, Bemuttern (fuss over, mother). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | μητρική φροντίδα. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | anyai gondoskodás (maternal care). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | cure materne. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | マグマ溜り (Macedonia, machine, machine gun, machine language, machine-room, machine-vision, magma reservoir, marshmallow, Maserati, Massachusetts, McGraw Hill, mother complex, Mother Goose, mother tape, motherland, Mother's Day, Oedipus complex, sexual attraction to one's mother). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | マザリング . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 어머니가 됨. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | arrey mayrey. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | otheringmay cuidados maternais. (various references) материнская ласка. (various references) negovanje (nurture, tendance). (various references) cuidados maternales. (various references) mors dag (mothering sunday), modersegenskap (maternal quality, mothering quality). (various references) การ"ูแลเ"็กหรือผู้อื่น. (various references) annelik etme. (various references) материнське піклування. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "MOTHERING": smothering. (additional references) | |
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"MOTHERING" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Mathurin, methedrine, mothwing, Mulheran, Mulheren, Mulherne, murthering, noetherian, othering. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "MOTHERING" (pronounced mu"thering) |
| 6 | m u" th er i ng | smothering. |
| 5 | -u" th er i ng | Wuthering. |
| 4 | -th er i ng | bothering, dithering, fathering, feathering, furthering, gathering, grandfathering, slithering, weathering, withering. |
| 3 | -er i ng | administering, altering, anchoring, angering, answering, auguring, backfiring, badgering, bantering, bartering, battering, belaboring, beleaguering, bettering, bewildering, bickering, blistering, blundering, blustering, bolstering, bordering, brokering, butchering, capturing, catering, censoring, centering, chartering, chattering, clamoring, clobbering, clustering, cluttering, coloring, configuring, conjuring, conquering, considering, cornering, countering, covering, cowering, culturing, deciphering, delivering, desiring, devouring, diapering, dickering, differing, discovering, disfavoring, disfiguring, dismembering, doctoring, doddering, embroidering, empowering, encountering, endangering, endeavoring, entering, factoring, faltering, favoring, featuring, festering, figuring, filibustering, filtering, fingering, flattering, flavoring, flickering, floundering, flowering, fluttering, fostering, foundering, fracturing, frittering, garnering, gerrymandering, gesturing, glimmering, glittering, glowering, guttering, hammering, hampering, hankering, harboring, hectoring, hindering, hollering, honoring, hovering, hungering, hunkering, injuring, inquiring, laboring, laundering, lawyering, layering, lecturing, lettering, levering, lingering, littering, loitering, lowering, lumbering, majoring, maneuvering, manufacturing, massacring, mastering, maundering, meandering, measuring, mentoring, metering, minoring, mirroring, mitering, mongering, monitoring, motoring, murdering, murmuring, mustering, muttering, nattering, neighboring, neutering, nonmanufacturing, numbering, nurturing, offering, ordering, outnumbering, pampering, pandering, papering, partnering, peppering, perjuring, pestering, petering, philandering, picturing, pilfering, plastering, plundering, pondering, posturing, powdering, powering, pressuring, proffering, prospering, puncturing, puttering, quivering, recapturing, reconsidering, recovering, rediscovering, reentering, registering, rejiggering, remembering, rendering, reoffering, reordering, requiring, restructuring, rewiring, rupturing, savoring, scampering, scattering, scouring, sculpturing, sequestering, severing, shattering, sheltering, shimmering, shivering, shouldering, showering, shuddering, shuttering, simmering, slaughtering, slobbering, slumbering, smattering, smoldering, snickering, sobering, soldering, soldiering, souring, spattering, spiering, splintering, sponsoring, sputtering, squandering, staggering, structuring, stuttering, suffering, surrendering, swaggering, sweltering, tailoring, tampering, tapering, teetering, tempering, tendering, thundering, tinkering, torturing, tottering, towering, transpiring, triggering, tutoring, uncovering, unflattering, unwavering, ushering, uttering, venturing, wagering, wallpapering, wandering, warmongering, watering, wavering, whimpering, whispering, wondering, zippering. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-g-h-i-m-n-o-r-t" | |
-1 letter: homering, thermion. | |
-2 letters: emoting, genitor, metring, mitogen, mothier, terming, theming. | |
-3 letters: engirt, eringo, ethion, goiter, goitre, gorhen, heriot, hermit, heroin, hinger, hinter, hoeing, hogtie, homier, homing, hornet, ignore, menhir, mentor, merino, meting, minter, mither, monger, morgen, mother, nigher, norite, nother, orient, region, remint, righto, throne, throng, toeing, tonger, tonier, trigon. | |
-4 letters: eight, enorm, ergot. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-g-h-i-m-n-o-r-t" | |
+1 letter: smothering. | |
+2 letters: earthmoving, homeporting, moonlighter, outhomering, resmoothing. | |
+3 letters: earthmovings, moonlighters, overmatching. | |
+4 letters: cinematograph, hydromagnetic, morphogenetic, motherfucking, mouthwatering, thermoforming, thermosetting, thermostating. | |
+5 letters: cinematographs, cinematography, gerontomorphic, magnetospheric, metamorphosing, thermomagnetic, thermostatting. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4D 4F 54 48 45 52 49 4E 47 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-- --- - .... . .-. .. -. --. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001101 01001111 01010100 01001000 01000101 01010010 01001001 01001110 01000111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)M O T H E R I N G |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004D 004F 0054 0048 0045 0052 0049 004E 0047 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)474954423952434841 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Images: Photo Album 6. Quotations: Spoken 7. Usage Frequency 8. Expressions | 9. Expressions: Internet 10. Translations: Modern 11. Derivations 12. Rhymes | 13. Anagrams 14. Orthography 15. Bibliography |
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