Mesorat%20hashas for Kiddushin 4:2

וְאֵלּוּ הֵם שְׁתוּקֵי, כֹּל שֶׁהוּא מַכִּיר אֶת אִמּוֹ וְאֵינוֹ מַכִּיר אֶת אָבִיו. אֲסוּפֵי, כֹּל שֶׁנֶּאֱסַף מִן הַשּׁוּק וְאֵינוֹ מַכִּיר לֹא אָבִיו וְלֹא אִמּוֹ. אַבָּא שָׁאוּל הָיָה קוֹרֵא לִשְׁתוּקֵי, בְּדוּקֵי:

Who is a "shetuki"? Whoever knows his mother, but not his father. [He calls his father, and his mother "silences him" (mashtikah otho)]. (Who is) an "asufi"? Whoever is gathered up (ne'esaf) from the marketplace, and knows neither his father nor his mother. Abba Shaul would call a shetuki a "beduki." [We "examine" (bodkin) his mother. If his mother says that she cohabited with one who was kasher, the child is kasher. The halachah is in accordance with Abba Shaul.]

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