Mother Hubbard
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From "Old Mother Hubbard", a nursery rhyme.
Noun[edit]
Mother Hubbard (plural Mother Hubbards)
- (fashion) A long, wide, loose gown with long sleeves and a high neck originally introduced by Christian missionaries as an adaptation of 19th-century European fashion to Polynesia but subsequently inclusive of lighter and more colorful variations.
- 1919, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, “chapter 49”, in The Moon and Sixpence, [New York, N.Y.]: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers […], →OCLC:
- Her arms were like legs of mutton, her breasts like giant cabbages; her face, broad and fleshy, gave you an impression of almost indecent nakedness, and vast chin succeeded to vast chin. I do not know how many of them there were. They fell away voluminously into the capaciousness of her bosom. She was dressed usually in a pink Mother Hubbard, and she wore all day long a large straw hat.
Synonyms[edit]
- holoku (Hawaiian contexts)
Translations[edit]
a loose-fitting dress
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Adjective[edit]
Mother Hubbard (comparative more Mother Hubbard, superlative most Mother Hubbard)