mum figure
informal
noun
A person who embodies the attributes of a mother; = mother figure.
Origin
1950s; earliest use found in ‘Nicholas Blake’ (1904–1972), poet and novelist (real name C. Day Lewis).
- cataphoric
- cataphorically
- cataphract
- cataplasm
- cataplectic
- cataplexy
- catapult
- cataract
- catarrh
- catarrhal
- catarrhine
- catastasis
- catastrophe
- catastrophe theory
- catastrophic
- catastrophically
- catastrophise
- catastrophiser
- catastrophism
- catastrophist
- catastrophize
- catastrophizer
- catatonia
- catatonic
- Catawba