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单词 mother goose
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Mother Goose


noun

the fictitious author of a collection of nursery rhymes first published in London (about 1760) under the title of Mother Goose's Melody.

Words nearby Mother Goose

mother earth, motherese, mother figure, motherfucker, Mother Goddess, Mother Goose, Mother Goose rhymes, mother hen, motherhood, mother house, Mother Hubbard
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Example sentences from the Web for Mother Goose

  • He thought he could hatch some goslings as well as the mother-goose.

    Stories of Great Inventors|Hattie E. Macomber
  • But the mother-goose hissed and the gander heard her and flew out of the goose-house after Tommy.

    Our Young Folks at Home and Abroad|Various

British Dictionary definitions for Mother Goose

Mother Goose

noun

the imaginary author of the collection of nursery rhymes published in 1781 in London as Mother Goose's Melody

Word Origin for Mother Goose

C18: translated from French Contes de ma mère l'Oye (1697), title of a collection of tales by Charles Perrault (1628–1703), French author
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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