| 单词 | mother-law | 
| 释义 | mother-lawn. Now English regional (chiefly south-western).   A mother-in-law; a stepmother. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > parent > mother > 			[noun]		 > mother-in-law mother-in-lawa1382 eldmotherc1440 good-mother1491 mother-law1526 mother-of-law1538 mother1589 mother-on-law1670 mama-in-law1855 ma-in-law1899 mum-in-law1975 1526    Bible 		(Tyndale)	 Luke xii. f. xcviijv  				The motherelawe agaynst the doughterelawe. 1567    G. Turberville tr.  G. B. Spagnoli Eglogs vi. f. 53v  				But Lady Fortvne is A Damme to them, she seemes to vs A Mother lawe ywis. This Stepdamme sterne doth deale With vs in cruell sorte. 1637    in  S. Tymms Wills & Inventories Bury St. Edmunds 		(1850)	 169  				My mother lawes children. a1652    R. Brome Damoiselle  v. i. sig. F8, in  Five New Playes 		(1653)	  				Your Mother-'Law..is fallen into a fit. 1786    J. Woodforde Diary 7 Aug. 		(1926)	 II. 262  				I gave Robert a Receipt on stampt Paper, and to let him with his Mother Law continue on the Estate. 1882    G. F. Jackson Shropshire Word-bk. (at cited word)  				I toud 'im if 'e couldna afford to tak' a 'ouse to lave me w'eer I wuz, fur I wunna gweïn to no mother-law. 1888    F. T. Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk.  				Mother-law, mother-in-law. The in is always omitted in this and similar relationships. 1891    T. Hardy Tess of the D'Urbervilles II. xxi. 5  				Ye ought to ha' been calling me mother-law these last five months. a1903    E. H. Goddard in  Eng. Dial. Dict. 		(1903)	 IV. 172/2  				[North Wiltshire] Mother-law [a mother-in-law]. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). <  | 
	
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