English

Alternative forms

• mother

Noun

moth-er ‎(plural moth-ers)

1. A person or animal that catches moths.
   • 1997 May, Backpacker, volume 25, number 4, page 30:

     Modern moth-ers use black lights, mercury vapor lamps, and portable generators to saturate the night sky[.]

   • 1997, Joshua M. Epstein, Nonlinear Dynamics, Mathematical Biology, and Social Science:

     Many species of bats are skilled ‘moth-ers’: they pursue them at speed after detecting them[.]

   • 2015, Tessa Wardley, The Countryside Book: 101 Ways To Play, Watch Wildlife, ...:

     Real moth-ers, mothies or lepidopterists, will use a mercury vapour bulb and even a special trap[.]