Mother Goose

noun

1. the fictitious author of a collection of nursery rhymes first published in London (about 1760) under the title of Mother Goose's Melody.

Mother Goose

noun

1. the imaginary author of the collection of nursery rhymes published in 1781 in London as Mother Goose's Melody

Word History and Origins

Origin of Mother Goose¹

C18: translated from French Contes de ma mère l'Oye (1697), title of a collection of tales by Charles Perrault (1628–1703), French author