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Mother Hubbards

Mother Hubbards is the plural of Mother Hubbard.

Meaning of Mother Hubbard

Noun

Mother Hubbard (plural Mother Hubbards)

  1. A long, wide, loose gown with long sleeves and a high neck originally introduced by Christian missionaries as an adaptation of 19th-century European fashion to Polynesia but subsequently inclusive of lighter and more colorful variations.
    • Her arms were like legs of mutton, her breasts like giant cabbages; her face, broad and fleshy, gave you an impression of almost indecent nakedness, and vast chin succeeded to vast chin. I do not know how many of them there were. They fell away voluminously into the capaciousness of her bosom. She...1919, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, “chapter 49”, in The Moon and Sixpence, [New York, N.Y.]: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers […], →OCLC
    Synonyms:
    holoku

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Questions about Mother Hubbards

What is Mother Hubbards the plural of?
Mother Hubbards is the plural of Mother Hubbard.

Words near Mother Hubbards in the dictionary

  1. mother hive
  2. mother hives
  3. Mother Hubbard
  4. Mother Hubbard clause
  5. Mother Hubbard clauses
  6. Mother Hubbards
  7. mother language
  8. mother languages
  9. mother liquor
  10. mother liquors
  11. mother load

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