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Etymology edit

Euphemistic alteration of motherfucker.

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

motherferyer (plural motherferyers)

  1. (US, slang) Motherfucker.
    • 1946, Milton “Mezz” Mezzrow, Bernard Wolfe, “Don’t Cry, Ma”, in Really the Blues, New York, N.Y.: Random House, book 1 (1899–1923: A Nothin’ but a Child), page 4:
      And it was in Pontiac that I dug that Jim Crow man in person, a motherferyer that would cut your throat for looking.