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Webster 1913 Edition

(ma̤′thẽr)

Noun.

[Cf. AS.

maegþ

a maid.]

[Also spelled

mawther

mother

A girl; esp., a great, awkward girl; a wench.

[Prov. Eng.]

Noun.

A foolish young girl. [Not used.]

mauther ‎(plural mauthers)

(archaic, Britain, dialect) A girl, especially, a large awkward girl.
- c.1610, Ben Jonson, The Alchemist, Act 4,
  KAS. Ay, I know -- Away, [TO HIS SISTER.] you talk like a foolish mauther.
- 1823, Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Colburn's new monthly magazine, Volume 7, page 230,
  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.