Mothering

What do we mean by mothering?

The nurturing and raising of a child or children by a mother. noun

A rural custom of visiting one's parents and giving them presents on Mid-Lent Sunday: supposed to be derived from the custom in former times of visiting the mother church on that day. Also called midlenting. noun

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. noun

Present participle of mother. verb

The nurturing of a child by its mother noun

The protective behaviour of a mother towards her child noun

Nurturing or protective behaviour reminiscent of that performed by a literal mother noun

Shortened form of a-mothering (obsolete); practice of visiting one's literal or figurative mother or mother church (compare Mothering Sunday) noun

To give birth to or produce (as its female parent) a child. (Compare father.)

To treat as a mother would be expected to treat her child; to nurture.

To be screwed, failing, in a bad situation Urban Dictionary

Want to have sex like a widkangaro with other mom or mom Urban Dictionary

A band that a lot of nonbinary people listen to. Urban Dictionary

A canadian indie band. Urban Dictionary

A band that is listened to by many non-binary people Urban Dictionary

An amazing band called mother mother, usually listened to by queer people, especially non binary ppl, thats why Verbatim is the unofficial non binary anthem Urban Dictionary

A Canadian band who’s music is used as code for non-binary people. Specifically: Verbatim- he/they pronouns Hayloft- they/them pronouns Oh Ana- she/they pronouns Infinitesimal- she/they/he pronouns Urban Dictionary

The non-binary version of "I listen to girl in red" Sure, not everyone who listens to Mother Mother is non-binary, but if your favourite song from them is Body, you're most definitely enby. Just a big ol' club for the queer Urban Dictionary

The language of the enbys Urban Dictionary

Why do you have more than one mother? And why do they each have multiple mothers, and they as well? Maybe lesbianism runs in the family somehow. Urban Dictionary

Words that are spelled similarly to mothering:
mothering, bothering, smothering, pothering, othering, fothering, gathering, withering, dithering, tethering, wuthering, mongering, tottering, muttering, metering, motoring, moldering, mattering, cohering, pottering, fathering, coshering, lathering, mitering, koshering, ochering, moehring, murthering, gophering, mohring, mothing, ottering.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word mothering:
ewes, motherhood, instincts, nurturing, colonize, breastfeeding, instinct, parenting, warmth, dependency, sunday, affection, feminist, lent, griffith, ideology, breed, shelter, identification, equality, celebrated, abilities, milk, mother, baby, celebration, ability, gender, grow, child, behavior, magazine, women, difference, becomes, claims, woman, needs, publishing, tradition, heart, skills, image, children, rose, care, visit, birth, protection, done, girl.

Words that rhyme with mothering:
wuthering, smothering, brother hung, mother hung.

Adjectives that are often used to describe mothering:
good, inadequate, surrogate, adequate, intensive, time, multiple, early, enough, bad, poor, much, natural, female, exclusive, normal, successful, single, proper, sensitive, feminist, excessive, active, effective, consistent, biological, scientific, substitute, activist, indiscriminate, continuous, appropriate, traditional, actual, psychological, positive, play, perfect, foster, transnational, adolescent, teenage, warm, noncontinuous, constant, abnormal, spiritual, extra, responsive, home, insufficient, subsequent, over, faulty, diverted, observed, insensitive, competent, male, deficient, intense, inconsistent, affectionate, overprotective, artificial, gentle, healthy, empathic, optimal, class, protective, defective, attentive, intermittent, goodenough, pathological, medieval, genuine.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective mothering:
person, role, instinct, ability, relationship, presence, power, air, figure, way, instincts, practices, capacity, parent, function, body, sort, activities, thing, kind, style, process, decisions, woman, discourse, love, tongue, career, soul, behavior, arms, spirit, bird, earth, experiences, care, night, fuss, responses, tone, gig, principle, figures, profession, female, sounds, member, skills, mode.

Consonant match to mothering:
mother hung.

Words that sound like mothering:
mothering, mother hen, measuring, smothering, mathurin, wuthering, mithril, meringue, mirroring, maring, mering, mother tongue, mehring, mood ring, moring, withering, weathering, muttering, mooring, mouthing, marring, majoring, miring, mazarin, mannering, mohring, mothery, measurin, moehring, minoring, mithra, nothing, marin, mirin, merin, morang, mairin, mathura, methene, mothers, murdering, maturing, mudding, murmuring, muffing, muddying, madrone, mother's, mumming, mud room, mudroom, mummying, mother, mushroom, nearing, motherly, morin, mulling, mothered, mattering, motoring, mushing, mother earth, mongering, marroon, mustering, tethering, muther, metering, mussing, maling, murrain, methuen, othering, marrin, mazarine, murrin, morrin, nehring, leathering, major in, mathern, motherese, munning, marron, mirren, mehran, meran, methan, mithras, the ring, mithun, miren, the thing, milliron, mithan, the throne, lathering, authoring, madron.