good-mother Sc.
[See good D. 2 b.]
A mother-in-law; also, a step-mother.
| 1536 Bellenden Cron. Scot. iii. xv. (1821) I. 109 This Caratak fled to his gud moder [L. noverca] Cartumandia Quene of Scottis. a 1557 Diurn. Occurr. (Bannatyne Club) 19 Alex. Cant burgis of Edinburgh, was slane in the nycht in his awne hous, be his seruand and his guidmoder. 1646 R. Baillie Lett. (1775) II. 187, I pity much..his good-mother, whose grace and virtue for many years I have highly esteemed. 1816 Scott Antiq. xxvi, ‘Yes, gudemither’, screamed the daughter-in-law, ‘it's e'en sae’. |
| Proverb. 1737 Ramsay Scot. Prov. (1797) 14 A green turf's a good good-mither. |