“Old Mother Hubbard”

Cultural  

1. A nursery rhyme. Its first stanza is:

   Old Mother Hubbard

   Went to the cupboard,

   To fetch her poor dog a bone;

   But when she got there

   The cupboard was bare,

   And so the poor dog had none.

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Example Sentences

“Old Mother Hubbard went to the cupboard and there wasn’t nothing there,” he said earlier this month as the final stretch arrived before the early signing day Dec. 20.

From Seattle Times

Thought to be the oldest playable recording of an American voice, it begins with the sound of brass instruments, followed by recitations of Mary Had a Little Lamb and Old Mother Hubbard.

From BBC

Margaret Brown, a pickpocket known as Old Mother Hubbard, was featured in an 1886 publication, Professional Criminals of North America.

From The Guardian

Had Old Mother Hubbard been able to check what Jim Mora left in UCLA's talent cupboard, we might have had college football's first nursery rhyme.

From Los Angeles Times

Sendak left the display house in the summer of 1948, and during the next two months, at home in Brooklyn, he and his brother constructed six intricate animated wooden toys, performing scenes from “Little Red Riding Hood,” “Little Miss Muffet,” “Hansel and Gretel,” “Aladdin’s Lamp,” “Old Mother Hubbard,” and “Pinocchio.”

From The New Yorker