Meaning of mumhood | Babel Free

Definitions

Synonym of motherhood.

UK, countable, uncountable

Examples

“Daisy was very funny,very warm, practising mumhood.”

“We talked about a Four Corners programme that had depicted the relentless burden that children with disabilities were to their carers – whose mumhood was completely denied in that programme.”

“But, no, for the average lady columnist in the tabloid press⟳, there is really only one type⟳ of woman who is worthy of trust⟳ and admiration: she must, of course, be not simply a mother, she must be 'a mum', although she can get⟳ away with not being a mum if she is 'suffering the heartbreak of infertility' and lost in envy of those who have⟳ reached the nirvana of mumhood, and wants to look⟳ at photographs of 'bubs' and smell⟳ their heads; she must love⟳ shoes, and the television production of Pride and Prejudice that starred colin Firth; she must find⟳ it impossible to resist⟳ chocolate, and enjoy⟳ drinking wine with 'the girls' while having a good old giggle about how men would never be able to cope with the pains of labour.”

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