MOTHER HUBBARD meaning: Loose, long dress for women

We found 19 dictionaries that define the word Mother Hubbard:

General (17 matching dictionaries)

Mother Hubbard: Merriam-Webster
Mother Hubbard: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
Mother Hubbard: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
Mother Hubbard: Collins English Dictionary
Mother Hubbard: Vocabulary.com
Mother Hubbard: Wordnik
Mother Hubbard: Wiktionary
Mother Hubbard: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
Mother Hubbard: Infoplease Dictionary
mother hubbard: Dictionary.com
Mother Hubbard (dress), Mother Hubbard: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
Mother hubbard: Rhymezone
Mother Hubbard: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
mother hubbard: FreeDictionary.org
mother hubbard: Mnemonic Dictionary
Mother Hubbard: TheFreeDictionary.com
Mother Hubbard: Merriam-Webster

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)

mother hubbard: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
mother hubbard (Mo Ho): Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Mother Hubbard)

▸ noun: (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.
▸ adjective: (idiomatic, colloquial) Empty.

Opposite:

full cupboard, well-stocked pantry, abundance

Types:

poor, needy, destitute, impoverished, penniless, more...

Phrases:

Old Mother Hubbard, Mother Hubbard dress, more...

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