mother goose

1. 1.

   the imaginary author of a collection of nursery rhymes

   Broaderfictional character

Questions about mother goose

What does mother goose mean?

mother goose means "the imaginary author of a collection of nursery rhymes".

Is mother goose a common word?

mother goose is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.