Mother Goose
noun
the fictitious author of a collection of nursery rhymes first published in London (about 1760) under the title of Mother Goose's Melody.
Example sentences from the Web for mother goose
He thought he could hatch some goslings as well as the mother-goose.
Stories of Great Inventors |Hattie E. MacomberBut the mother-goose hissed and the gander heard her and flew out of the goose-house after Tommy.
Our Young Folks at Home and Abroad |Various
British Dictionary definitions for mother goose
Mother Goose
noun
the imaginary author of the collection of nursery rhymes published in 1781 in London as Mother Goose's Melody
Word Origin for Mother Goose
C18: translated from French
Contes de ma mère l'Oye (1697), title of a collection of tales by Charles
Perrault (1628–1703), French author