motherkin

English

Etymology

mother +‎ -kin

Noun

motherkin (plural motherkins)

1. (dated) Fond term of address for one's mother.
2. (dated) Fond term of address for a woman older than the speaker
   • 1902, Hilaire Belloc, The Path to Rome:

     "Motherkin," I answered, "what I mean is that I would sleep until I wake, for I have come a prodigious distance and have last slept in the woods […]"