tiger mother
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tiger mother
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The sense of the ambitious mother was popularized by the parenting memoir Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother (2011) by Amy Chua.
noun tiger mothers · tiger mom · tiger mum
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A woman who is fiercely protective of one or more people in her care.
[…] I spent all last night on my knees, beseeching the Great Physician to hear me and heal my boy. […] but the instinct of the tiger-mother is tearing my heart to pieces […].
Similar: mama bear, mama grizzly
- A mother who drives her child or children very hard to succeed in school or in extracurricular studies, such as learning a musical instrument. I would like to see Oxford and Cambridge turned into graduate universities entirely devoted to research, which at a stroke would cool the ardour of the "tiger mothers" of Holland Park and Hampstead determined to set their three-year-olds on the path to Oxbridge, whatever the human cost.
Talk about this word "tiger mother." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/tiger%20mother. Accessed 7 Nov. 2026. tiger mother. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 7, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/tiger%20mother "tiger mother." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 7, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/tiger%20mother.Cite this
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title = {tiger mother},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
url = {https://micwyn.com/word/tiger%20mother},
urldate = {2026-11-07}
}
