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MOTHER GOOSE
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• MOTHER GOOSE (noun)
The noun MOTHER GOOSE has 1 sense:
1. the imaginary author of a collection of nursery rhymes
Familiarity information: MOTHER GOOSE used as a noun is very rare.
Sense 1
Meaning:
The imaginary author of a collection of nursery rhymes
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Instance hypernyms:
character; fictional character; fictitious character (an imaginary person represented in a work of fiction (play or film or story))
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"New brooms sweep clean" (Dutch proverb)