mother
UK /ˈmʌð.ə/US /ˈmʌðɚ/
noun21
verb4
forms
mothered · mothering · mothers · Mothers
Phrases with mother
- and his motherServes as an intensifier for an inclusive noun or phrase such as everyone, anyone, each someone or all someones.
- be motherTo pour out tea for others.
- mother henA female chicken who bears eggs or chicks.
- mother-hivethe principal or source hive of a colony of bees
- Mother HubbardEmpty.
- mother lodeA large or rich vein of gold or of another precious mineral from which other branches extend.
- mother of allUsed before a plural noun to form a compound noun having the sense of: the greatest or largest of (its kind); the most epic example of (its kind).
- mother upTo act as a mother to a child.
- patience of Mother TeresaA great deal of patience.
- refrigerator motherAn emotionally frigid mother, who does not exhibit normal care or love for her child or children.
- sweet Mary mother of GodUsed to add emphasis, particularly by Catholics.
- who's 'she', the cat's motherA rebuke especially directed towards children for having referred to a woman in the nominative case as "she", instead of by her name or an appropriately respectful title.