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Mother hubbard

adj, noun, slang

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Empty. colloquial, idiomatic

    ""Other than my earthquake kit, the cupboards are looking pretty Mother Hubbard. We can go to the Farmers Market and get some produce.""

Noun
  1. 1
    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.

    "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."

  2. 2
    a woman's loose unbelted dress wordnet

Etymology

Etymology 1

From "Old Mother Hubbard", a nursery rhyme.

Etymology 2

From "Old Mother Hubbard", a nursery rhyme.

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