In addition to its literal meaning, it is usually used as an exclamation, and would be a popular and iconoclastic version of the more religious "Holy Mother!" By antiphrasis it can have a positive character, although in origin it is insulting. See whore ("harlot"), mother ("progenitor", "vulva"), ta mare, son of his mother, the whore! , the whore who gave birth to you , prick mother , PM .
