mumsiness
/ˈmʌmzɪnɪs/British informal
noun
The quality or fact of being motherly (often with connotation of homeliness or staidness); unadventurous or conventional character, especially in dress.
Origin
1980s; earliest use found in The Guardian. From mumsy + -ness.
- post warrant
- Post, Wiley
- post-windmill
- postwoman
- post-worthy
- post-yuppie
- cognitively
- cognitive map
- cognitive prosthesis
- cognitive science
- cognitive scientist
- cognitive therapy
- cognitivism
- cognitivist
- cognizable
- cognizably
- cognizance
- cognizant
- cognize
- cognomen
- cognoscente
- cognoscenti
- cogon
- cogon grass
- cog railway