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- noun dialectal
daughter .
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Examples
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Her vather an 'mawther's dead, my deear, and she've got piles o' money, an 'Richard Trezidder es' er guardian, an 'they main' er to marry Nick.
The Birthright Joseph Hocking 1898
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She couldn't get out of the 'mawther' yet, being always used of it, and there never was no 'father' in her little tex'es.
Capt'n Davy's Honeymoon Hall Caine 1892
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'Es faather an' mawther was up in the churchyard, an ''a hadn' got a single friend in the world!
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Horace, 'said he,' didn't you save moy old mawther from being drowned by the boys vor a witch, noa, noa, -- I be true, and hate yearl and lawyer, and all the great volk. '
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You know, I mus 'go to church wiz my mawther, but my Pápa, he weel not go.
Play the Game! Ruth Comfort Mitchell 1918
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"And mark my words, Maaster Roger," she said, "when you go, oal you zay will be took no noatice ov, but yer mawther and Maaster Wilfred 'll look black."
Roger Trewinion Joseph Hocking 1898
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"Yer brother es gone to his mawther," she muttered.
Roger Trewinion Joseph Hocking 1898
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Providence took away 'er mawther, but left Tamsin; an' Providence was kind, Jasper, for her mawther _'ad_ a tongue, my deear.
The Birthright Joseph Hocking 1898
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Maaster Roger'll have to bee keerful of the woman he do call mawther.
Roger Trewinion Joseph Hocking 1898
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'Twas the mawther that was too cunning for Esau, ah, and ef Maaster
Roger Trewinion Joseph Hocking 1898
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