Definition of Mother Goose

1. Noun. The imaginary author of a collection of nursery rhymes.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Mother Goose

Mosso's sphygmomanometer
Most High
Mostar
Mosul
Motacilla
Motacillidae
Motais' operation
Moteuczoma
Mother's Day
Mother's Days
Mother Carey's chicken
Mother Carey's hen
Mother City
Mother Earth
Mother Goose (current term)
Mother Hubbard
Mother Jones
Mother Nature
Mother Russia
Mother Seton
Mother Superior
Mother Superiors
Mother Teresa
Mother Theresa
Mother of God
Mother of God's plant
Mothering Sunday
Mothers Night
Mothers Nights

Literary usage of Mother Goose

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Children's Books and Reading by William Finch Allen, Montrose Jonas Moses (1907)
"Mother Goose. There has been a sentimental desire on the part of many students to trace the origin of Mother Goose to this country; but despite all effort ..."

2. St. Nicholas by Mary Mapes Dodge (1879)
"I am Mother Goose, a poor, simple old body, that makes verses to get ... Mother Goose. I '11 whale you. Take that basket into the house and feed the dog, ..."

3. The Magazine of American History with Notes and Queries by John Austin Stevens, Benjamin Franklin DeCosta, Martha Joanna Lamb, Henry Phelps Johnston, Nathan Gilbert Pond, William Abbatt (1891)
"Mother Goose belonged to a wealthy family in Boston, where her eldest ... Mother Goose was the mother of twenty-one children, and hence we may easily trace ..."

4. American Book Prices Current (1921)
"MADISON AGONISTES; or, The Agonies of Mother Goose. Lend., 1814. 8vo. Cf., unc., by P. Riach (Stevens copy), Wendell, G., Oct. IS, '19. (2426) $14.00. ..."

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