"mother wit" meaning in English

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  "lang_code": "en",
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        {
          "ref": "1830, James Fenimore Cooper, chapter 28, in The Headsman",
          "text": "The buffoon, though accustomed to deception and frauds, had sufficient mother-wit to comprehend the critical position in which he was now placed.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1894, Herbert George Wells, The Triumphs of a Taxidermist",
          "text": "One of those young genii who write us Science Notes in the papers got hold of a German pamphlet about the birds of New Zealand, and translated some of it by means of a dictionary and his mother-wit — he must have been one of a very large family with a small mother — and he got mixed between the living apteryx and the extinct anomalopteryx... [[File:Apteryx mantelli -Rotorua, North Island, New Zealand-8a.jpg|thumb|Apteryx, a kiwi]]",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1959 December 21, “FICTION: The Year's Best”, in Time, retrieved 2011-04-04",
          "text": "Russian author Panova, writing with unostentatious excellence, has both the compassion and the mother wit to describe the world of a six-year-old—and to recall an existence that most grownups have forgotten.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2007 April 15, Terrence Rafferty, “Film: A Gumshoe Adrift, Lost in the 70's”, in New York Times, retrieved 2011-04-04",
          "text": "[T]he classic private eye could operate effectively and get to the bottom of things with nothing more than nerve, mother wit and local knowledge.",
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        }
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      "glosses": [
        "Inborn intelligence; innate good sense."
      ],
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          "inborn"
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        [
          "intelligence",
          "intelligence"
        ],
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          "innate",
          "innate"
        ],
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          "good sense",
          "good sense"
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        "(uncountable) Inborn intelligence; innate good sense."
      ],
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      "glosses": [
        "A person with such intelligence."
      ],
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        "(countable, obsolete) A person with such intelligence."
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          "_dis1": "39 61",
          "word": "common sense"
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          "word": "native wit"
        },
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          "_dis1": "39 61",
          "word": "mother-wit"
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  "word": "mother wit"
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        {
          "ref": "1830, James Fenimore Cooper, chapter 28, in The Headsman",
          "text": "The buffoon, though accustomed to deception and frauds, had sufficient mother-wit to comprehend the critical position in which he was now placed.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1894, Herbert George Wells, The Triumphs of a Taxidermist",
          "text": "One of those young genii who write us Science Notes in the papers got hold of a German pamphlet about the birds of New Zealand, and translated some of it by means of a dictionary and his mother-wit — he must have been one of a very large family with a small mother — and he got mixed between the living apteryx and the extinct anomalopteryx... [[File:Apteryx mantelli -Rotorua, North Island, New Zealand-8a.jpg|thumb|Apteryx, a kiwi]]",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1959 December 21, “FICTION: The Year's Best”, in Time, retrieved 2011-04-04",
          "text": "Russian author Panova, writing with unostentatious excellence, has both the compassion and the mother wit to describe the world of a six-year-old—and to recall an existence that most grownups have forgotten.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2007 April 15, Terrence Rafferty, “Film: A Gumshoe Adrift, Lost in the 70's”, in New York Times, retrieved 2011-04-04",
          "text": "[T]he classic private eye could operate effectively and get to the bottom of things with nothing more than nerve, mother wit and local knowledge.",
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        "(uncountable) Inborn intelligence; innate good sense."
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        "A person with such intelligence."
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        "(countable, obsolete) A person with such intelligence."
      ],
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        "obsolete"
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    {
      "word": "common sense"
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    {
      "word": "mother-wit"
    }
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  "word": "mother wit"
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