Mother Hubbard

[ huhb-erd ]

/ ˈhʌb ərd /

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noun

a full, loose gown, usually fitted at the shoulders, worn by women.

a character in a nursery rhyme.

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Words nearby Mother Hubbard

Mother Goose, Mother Goose rhymes, mother hen, motherhood, mother house, Mother Hubbard, mothering, Mothering Sunday, mother-in-law, mother-in-law's tongue, motherland

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How to use Mother Hubbard in a sentence

Taraji manages to bring an equal measure of truth to the mother in her character.
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Three on-the-record stories from a family: a mother and her daughters who came from Phoenix.
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But my sources, my young women and their mother, heroically held firm.
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I thought about the mother, her fear of the dark, of the harm she feared might come to her daughters.
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Meanwhile two kids were taken from their mother when she flew back to the UK from Turkey.
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There was no doubt thought of his own loss in this question: yet there was, one may hope, a germ of solicitude for the mother too.
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"The Smoker," and "Mother and Daughter," a triptych, are two of her principal pictures.
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Now first we shall want our pupil to understand, speak, read and write the mother tongue well.
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The mother's lips could not finish the charge she was about to put upon her innocent child.
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The Authorised Version has: “And as a mother shall she meet him, and receive him as a wife married of a virgin.”
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British Dictionary definitions for Mother Hubbard

Mother Hubbard

/ (ˈhʌbəd) /

noun

(sometimes not capitals) a woman's full-length unbelted dress

Word Origin for Mother Hubbard

C19: after Mother Hubbard, a character in a nursery rhyme

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