"motherling" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1912, Flora Annie Webster Steel, King-errant",
          "text": "I will marry again, motherling! I will indeed; but this time let me choose for myself,\" he said consolingly as the fond woman clung to him in mingled joy at seeing him again, and grief at the failure of her schemes.",
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        "(derogatory) Mother."
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