Home › Words › M › mauthermauthermauther means A girl, especially, a large awkward girl.Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, mauther ranks #23,631 of 42,752 for Qualifying.EtymologyUncertain; possibly originally a variant of mother.nounA girl, especially, a large awkward girl.e.g.“KAS. Ay, I know -- Away, [TO HIS SISTER.] you talk like a foolish mauther.” — c. 1610, Ben Jonson, The Alchemist, Act 4:A mother.e.g.“Cleave to a tight ship, my boy, as long as the wind blaeth, and while she lives upon the waters, she'll aye be a mauther to thee.” — 1823, Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Colburn's new monthly magazine, volume 7, page 230:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).