Usually means: Innate, intuitive wisdom or intelligence.
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General (16 matching dictionaries)
  1. mother wit: Merriam-Webster
  2. mother wit: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. mother wit: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. mother wit: Collins English Dictionary
  5. mother wit: Vocabulary.com
  6. mother-wit, mother wit: Wordnik
  7. mother-wit, mother wit: Wiktionary
  8. mother wit: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. mother wit: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. Mother wit, mother wit: Dictionary.com
  11. mother wit: Rhymezone
  12. mother-wit: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  13. Mother-wit: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  14. mother wit: FreeDictionary.org
  15. mother wit: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. mother wit: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. mother wit: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. mother wit: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (mother wit)

▸ noun:  (uncountable) Inborn intelligence; innate good sense.
▸ noun:  (countable, obsolete) A person with such intelligence.

Similar:
horse sense, gumption, common sense, good sense, sense, light of nature, nous, cunning, savviness, sagacity, more...

Opposite:
foolishness, stupidity, ignorance

Adjectives:
mothered, maternal, brood, motherly, mommy, mumsy, maternalistic, enate, mum, mom, paternal

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Similar:
horse sense, gumption, common sense, good sense, sense, light of nature, nous, cunning, savviness, sagacity, more...

Opposite:
foolishness, stupidity, ignorance

Adjectives:
mothered, maternal, brood, motherly, mommy, mumsy, maternalistic, enate, mum, mom, paternal



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