housemotherly

English

Etymology

From housemother +‎ -ly.

Adjective

housemotherly (comparative more housemotherly, superlative most housemotherly)

  1. Of or befitting a housemother.
    Coordinate term: housefatherly
    • 1982, M[ary] F[rances] K[ennedy] Fisher, “Young Hunger”, in As They Were, New York, N.Y.: Alfred A. Knopf, →ISBN, page 35:
      Then I arranged all my own and my roommate’s pillows in a voluptuous pile, placed so that I could see whether a silent housemotherly foot stood outside the swaying monk’s-cloth curtain that served as a door (to cut down our libidinous chitchat, the school board believed), and I put my hoard of Hersheys discreetly under a fold of the bedspread.
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