mother- n.
As a semi-euph. for motherfucker n.
In compounds
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | in Harlem, USA 179: Burn the mother-bugger down. | |
![[SA]](/static/img/flags/sa.png "South Africa") | Muzukuru 367: If Mr Mugger-bugger and old Fatso won’t stop fighting the West will come in and clean them up in a week. |
| [ | | in Leadbitter & Slaven Blues Records (1968) 513: [song title] Dirty Mother For You.]. |
| Really the Blues 4: And it was in Pontiac that I dug that Jim Crow man in person, a motherferyer that would cut your throat for looking. [Ibid.] 16: They’d cut your nuts out for lookin’, where those motherferyers come from. | |
| (con. WWII) And Then We Heard The Thunder (1964) 247: Some of your folks’ leaders called on the President down in Washington and demanded that colored soldiers be allowed to die with dignity [...] Now ain’t that a mother-fer-ya? | |
| Playboy’s Book of Forbidden Words. |
 | Summer at the Lake 437: ‘Mother flicker’, one of them grunted, hitting me in the gut. | |
| Price of Passion 236: Don’t threaten me, mother flicker, unless you really mean it. |
| Poemcees.com 5 Sept. [blog] Delayed reaction is a motherflunker. The insanity that is the disappearance of State and Metro is just now hitting me. |
| Tambourines to Glory II ii: Buddy Lomax – who everybody knows is a motherfouler. | |
| Invisible Man 469: Leave the mother-fouler alone. |
| ‘Harlem’ 1: How you get so bad? Why you poor Brooklyn motherfriger, I’ll wreck this goddam place with you. |
| ‘Dirty Mother For You’ in Oliver Screening the Blues (1968) 232: He’s a dirty mother fuyer, he don’t mean me no good, / He got drunk this morning, tore up the neighborhood. | |
| ‘Dirty Mother Fuyer’ in Oliver Screening the Blues (1968) 242: Grandpa tol’ grandma last year / Got too old for to shift your gear, / You’s stiff mother fuyer don’t you know. | |
| Village Voice (N.Y.) 5 Apr. 🌐 In 1980, he was a 65-year-old mother fuyer. |
| letter 7 Sept. in Joint (1972) 221: You set me up, mother-grabber. | |
| Free-Lance Pallbearers 34: Dippyduk goofy mother-grabber! | |
| Dict. of Invective (1991) 258: The degree of outrage was evidenced by the number of euphemisms that were devised for the expression, e.g., granny-jazzer, mammy-jammer, mommy-hopper, mother-grabber, mother-jumper, and mother-lover, among others. |
| Walk the Line 85: You crazy-ass mother-head, what-choo doin’? [HDAS]. | |
| Blue Highways 101: They be worse than a honky pig. Those black motherheads’ll manhandle you. |
| Carlito’s Way 80: They kept the guns too. Mother-hoppers. | |
| Q&A 183: Maybe they’re gonna set me up. Mother hopper. | |
| Maledicta 1 (Summer) 11: There is also a whole lesser spectrum of obviously burlesque and mocking synonyms for the same thing, such as granny-jazzer, mammy-jammer, momma-hopper, and poppa-lopper. These are used to raise a laugh, not to start a fight. |
| ‘Big Boy’ in Lover Man 53: Said the monkey to the lion / In the woods one day, / There’s a BAD motherhubber / Down the road a way. | |
| ‘Dance of the Infidels’ in Lover Man 157: Them square mother-hubbers drug me so terrible I had to put that down. | |
| Black Talk 163: Mother Hubbard euphemism for muthafucka. |
| Lady Sings the Blues (1975) 84: A faggot was a faggot; a dike was a dike; a mother-hugger was a mother-hugger [...] a mother-hugger was somebody who wasn’t adjusted and had problems. |
| Path for Our Valour 81: Death, I think, you mother-humper. | |
| No Bugles, No Drums 95: This mother-humper had feet as long as my legs. | |
| World War III (1979) 216: Clean out that mother hump. | |
| After Hours 168: He ain’t gettin’ none, why should you. Mother humpers. | |
| Cujo (1982) 86: I bet that motherhumper [a large dog] went two hundred pounds. | |
| (con. 1964–8) Cold Six Thousand 82: Running fire with one baaaad mother humper. |
| Esquire Nov. 70J: mother jiver: someone who cons or fools. Lately has taken on an affectionate meaning and even a term of praise. Example: a bad mother jiver is an excellent musician. |
| Duke 89: All right now, mother-jumpers, talk! | |
| Tomboy (1952) 14: It was that no good mother-jumper that owns the store. | |
| Golden Spike 22: What mother-jumpers you been listening to? | |
| ‘Cool Cat’ in Tell Them Nothing (1956) 73: A big popeyed crazy-looking motherjumper comes flying out. | |
| (con. 1958) Been Down So Long (1972) 85: David, baby [...] you old benevolent motherjumper, I love you! | |
| Down These Mean Streets (1970) ix: I wanna tell ya I’m here — you bunch of mother-jumpers — I’m here, and I want recognition, whatever that mudder-fuckin word means. [Ibid.] 86: Do me a favor, you motherfuckin’ paddy, get back with your people. [...] I hate all your white motherjumps. | |
| Playboy’s Book of Forbidden Words. | |
| Dict. of Invective (1991) 258: The degree of outrage was evidenced by the number of euphemisms that were devised for the expression, e.g., granny-jazzer, mammy-jammer, mommy-hopper, mother-grabber, mother-jumper, and mother-lover, among others. | |
| (ref. to c.1967) Dark Laughter 143: One of them [a song] is ‘The Great Big Loudmouth Mother Jumper’. | |
| ‘Paradise’ in Broken 272: The leader is a cold, cool mother-jumper. |
| Iron City 69: ‘And as for that mother-lover –’ he thumbed in the direction of the guard. | |
| (con. WWII) And Then We Heard The Thunder (1964) 278: All right, you little goldbricking mother-lover, let’s get on the ball. | |
| Warriors (1966) 91: Don’t talk to me like I was a whore. Man, I’ll show you who’ll get fucked, mother-lover. | |
| Dict. of Invective (1991) 258: The degree of outrage was evidenced by the number of euphemisms that were devised for the expression, e.g., granny-jazzer, mammy-jammer, mommy-hopper, mother-grabber, mother-jumper, and mother-lover, among others. |
| Banjo 229: I’ve been made a fool of by many a skirt, but it’s the first time a mother-plugger done got me like this. |
| Imabelle 56: ‘That mother raper has done picked my pocket’. | |
| Run Man Run (1969) 8: Every time I get ready to put out the garbage, some white mother-raper comes by [...] looking for trouble. | |
| Blind Man with a Pistol (1971) 92: Them mother-rapers upstairs know about it. |
| Hero 164: Motherrubber! My head! It feels like it’s been drop-kicked [HDAS]. |
| From Here to Eternity (1998) 27: He’s a good gambler, all right. The mother sucker. | |
| ‘Eighth Wonder’ 🎵 We gonna turn this mother sucker out. |
As a semi-euph. for motherfucking adj.
In compounds
| Bessie Cotter 182: I’ll hoor you — you mother-beating bastard. |
![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | (con. 1940s) Do Not Go Gentle (1962) 115: You mother-eating fairies —! [Ibid.] 117: The lousiest drag-ass bunch of mother-eatin’ piss-drinkin’ fart sack-lovin’ pack of homos I ever seed. |
| Burn, Killer, Burn! 66: Eight big iron men all shot to hell and gone, ’cause an old dingy bastard wanted to impress a mother-feeling bishop. |
| posting 8 Oct. at Endeffect.com 🌐 this game is the mother flunking shiznet!! |
| Flesh Peddlers (1964) 48: There were various ways of labeling clients: a no-good sonofabitch was only topped at times by a mother-freying-blank-blank. |
| (con. 1940s) Do Not Go Gentle (1962) 185: That’s how I’m treated in this mother-friggin’ lash-up. | |
| The Spy Who Came... 38: Did our guy kill the mother-friggin’ crappy commie [...] Those mother friggin’ sons of bitches. |
| Horn 68: Those mother-grabbin’ slacks you sold me yesterday. | |
| Night of the Iguana Act III: Oh, my God, the money. They haven’t paid the mother-grabbin’ bill. | |
| ‘Showdown with Rance McGrew’ in New Stories from the Twilight Zone 67: Some jumbled colloquy that sounded like ‘Areyououtofyourmothergrabbingmind?’. | |
| (con. WWII) Thin Red Line (1963) 58: He’s a jerkoff. A mothergrabbing jerkoff. | |
| Playboy Mar. 92: ‘Out of your mother-grabbing mind,’ Joanne said [HDAS]. |
| Down These Mean Streets (1970) 98: Hell, with our gift of labia we’re a mother-hopping cinch to cop a slave. |
| On the Road (The Orig. Scroll) (2007) 235: We’ve suddenly come into fairytale route one in the mother hubbard woods. | |
| ‘Gimme Some Truth’ 🎵 No short-haired, yellow-bellied, son of Tricky Dicky / Is gonna Mother Hubbard soft soap me. | |
| Guardian Guide 1–6 Jan. 18: I’m mutha-hubbard outta here! |
| One Hundred Dollar Misunderstanding 22: He so fishfry flush he kin hardly git his mothahhumpin hands roun that wad! | |
| Chosen Few (1966) 105: He got pissed and told Blood he wanted satisfaction ... you hip t’that? That mother-humpin’ fuckoff wanted satisfaction. | |
| Come Monday Morning 51: He scored every [...] motherhumpin’ point!! | |
| Sharky’s Machine 110: I got to wonder how in hell he ever got tied in with that mother-humping piece of camelshit. | |
| You Bright and Risen Angels (1988) 50: [The] horse hadn’t been worth the motherhumping feed. | |
| Indep. on Sun. Travel 9 Jan. 5: Sonofabitch mother-humping low-down goddam bastard. |
| Diet of Treacle (2008) 183: For the everloving motherjumping love of Jesus Christ. |
| Enemy 149: Oh, those foggers. Those mother-loving foggers [OED]. | |
| ‘See Him Die’ in Jungle Kids (1967) 103: He didn’t get out of that mother-lovin’ cellar. | |
| On the Waterfront (1964) 306: You’re a cheap, lousy, dirty, stinkin’ mother-lovin’ bastard. | |
| Gaudy Image (1966) 30: Yeah, some real mammy-lovin’ goddamn cheap tinhorn place. | |
| Sound 285: Red really blew his mother-lovin’ soul on that one. | |
| (con. WWII) And Then We Heard The Thunder (1964) 13: I want all of you [...] come down these steps and out to the formation on the mother-loving two. | |
| (con. 1940s) Admiral (1968) 251: Hello, world [...] Kiss my mother-loving ass. | |
| Skin Tight 205: Stick it right in his motherloving face. |
| One Hundred Dollar Misunderstanding 36: Baby way you go off, you musta been savin that one for a mothahlumpin lifetime. |
| One Hundred Dollar Misunderstanding 74: We ain gonna make it, you keep up yer fuggin huffin and puffin an mothahrammin railroadin. |
| Imabelle 16: [T]hinking of how he could drive that goddam DeSoto taxicab straight off the mother-raping earth. | |
| (con. 1940s) Do Not Go Gentle (1962) 202: That queer’s really a first class A-1 mother-rapin’ gutless wonder of a horse’s ass! | |
| Rage in Harlem (1969) 57: Leave me see that mother-rapin’ roll. | |
| Blind Man with a Pistol (1971) 75: If you so worried about his mother-raping chick, why don’t you go and see her? |
| (con. c.1900) King Blood (1989) 30: Mothersuckin’ turd, grannygobbler, jismeater, screwing little shit. |
As other euphs.
In compounds
(US) a euph. for a putative lit. n. motherfucking, i.e. incestuous intercourse.
| ‘My Mp3’ Wisdom Goof 🌐 Nirvana – End. In which Kurt & co tackle the Doors’ Oedipal opus and waffle on about Belgian waffles instead of addressing the thorny questions of parricide and motherhugging. |
(US black) a synon. for motherfuck n. (2)
| Blind Man with a Pistol (1971) 182: I don’t give a mother-rape whether you’re a disgrace to the race or not. |
(US black) a euph. for motherfuck v.
| Cotton Comes to Harlem (1967) 13: Mother-rape it! Git the money, let’s git going. |
In exclamations
(US) a euph. for motherfucker! excl.
| (con. 1964–8) Cold Six Thousand 162: Leroy fell down. He said mothersomething. he pulled a shiv. |