You’re watching Lingo Phoenix’s word of the day for December 29.

National Pepper Pot Day

Today’s word is mother, spelled m-o-t-h-e-r.

mother / ˈmʌðə $ -ər/ noun [countable]

the mother of all idiom

—used to say that something is larger, better, worse, etc., than all other things of the same kind

I got stuck in the mother of all traffic jams.

I woke up with the mother of all hangovers.

It has been described as the mother of all construction projects.

a real mother of a car

SOURCE, ORIGIN

Necessity is the mother of invention.

mother verb [transitive]

to give birth to

She mothered two sons but no daughters.

I hope to mother at least one child.

to care for or protect like a mother

Brenda just tries to mother everyone.

I don’t like being mothered!

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