motherloving

English

Etymology

mother +‎ loving

Pronunciation

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Adjective

motherloving (not comparable)

1. (euphemistic, slang) Motherfucking.
   • 1956/7, West Side Story: Jet Song, Stephen Sondheim

     Here come the Jets, Yeah!

     And we're gonna beat Ev'ry last buggin' gang

     On the whole buggin' street!

     On the whole!

     Ever!

     Mother!

     Lovin'!

     Street!

     Yeah!

   • 1971, John Speicher, Didman:

     The old American's back in the air, boys — we're zooming in low over Moscow, bringing down the whole motherloving house of cards.

   • 2000, Vernor Vinge, A deepness in the sky:

     That must have been something motherloving important.

   • 2001, Shashi Tharoor, Riot:

     Motherloving idiots: one of the greatest of Sikh journalists, Khushwant Singh, wrote that if Khalistan were ever created it would be a "duffer state."

   • 2002, Carl Hiaasen, Skin Tight:

     Stick it right in his motherloving face, realty piss him off. Willie had it down to an art: He'd poke the TV camera directly at the subject's nose...