subs. (old).—A strapping masculine woman; a virago. Fr., une femme hommasse.
1785. GROSE, A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, s.v.
d. 1819. WOLCOT (‘Peter Pindar’), Works.
| In woman, angel sweetness let me see: | |
| No galloping HORSE-GODMOTHERS for me. |
1838. C. SELBY, Jacques Strop, iii., 1. What a couple of HORSE-GODMOTHERS.
1846–8. THACKERAY, Vanity Fair, ii., ch. 4. How do, my dear? Come to see the old man, hay? Gad—you’ve a pretty face, too. You ain’t like that old HORSE-GODMOTHER, your mother.
