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Get the mother lode mug.Originally meaning a main vein in mining, the spelling “motherload” is a mistake which is probably influenced by people thinking it means “the mother of all heavy loads.”
A “lode” was originally a stream of water, but by analogy it became a vein of metal ore. A vein of mineral ore deposited between clearly demarcated layers of rock ahdictionary dot com Miners of precious metals live to find a 'lode' of gold, which they refer to as a “mother lode,” often spelled as two words, sometimes as one (neither is in the dictionary though).
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A “lode” was originally a stream of water, but by analogy it became a vein of metal ore. A vein of mineral ore deposited between clearly demarcated layers of rock ahdictionary dot com Miners of precious metals live to find a 'lode' of gold, which they refer to as a “mother lode,” often spelled as two words, sometimes as one (neither is in the dictionary though).
Definition paraphrased from Washington State University website
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"his head full of dreams about the mother lode buried somewhere inside" (James Lee Burke, Swan Peak, 2008)
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Get the Mother lode mug.1) one who loves his friend's mother... quite literally, in fact.
2) the solution when you forget to buy your mom a Mother's Day gift.
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2) the solution when you forget to buy your mom a Mother's Day gift.
3) the sequel to SNL's "Dick in a Box," starring Andy Samberg and Justin Timberlake.
"I'm a motherlover, you're a motherlover, we should fuck each other's mothers, fuck each other's moms."
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It’s supposed to be like “i’d rather lay in bed and fuck myself” but we had to be slightly more clever about it and decided on motherlove to imply motherfuck u - Bea Miller.
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