"tiger mum" meaning in English

See tiger mum in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: tiger mums [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} tiger mum (plural tiger mums)
  1. (UK) tiger mother Tags: UK Categories (topical): Parents

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for tiger mum meaning in English (1.5kB)

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "tiger mums",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "tiger mum (plural tiger mums)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "British English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with topic categories using raw markup",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
          "parents": [
            "Terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Parents",
          "orig": "en:Parents",
          "parents": [
            "Family members",
            "Family",
            "People",
            "Human",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2012 April 8, Chin Mui Yoon, “From homemaker to head honcho”, in The Star, Malaysia",
          "text": "\"I was never a tiger mum!\" Eu says with a laugh. \"My kids started boarding school at nine, so they learnt to be independent from young. […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "tiger mother"
      ],
      "id": "en-tiger_mum-en-noun-jUbw4De1",
      "links": [
        [
          "tiger mother",
          "tiger mother"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(UK) tiger mother"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "tiger mum"
}
{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "tiger mums",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "tiger mum (plural tiger mums)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "British English",
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "en:Parents"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2012 April 8, Chin Mui Yoon, “From homemaker to head honcho”, in The Star, Malaysia",
          "text": "\"I was never a tiger mum!\" Eu says with a laugh. \"My kids started boarding school at nine, so they learnt to be independent from young. […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "tiger mother"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "tiger mother",
          "tiger mother"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(UK) tiger mother"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "tiger mum"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-04-30 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 using wiktextract (210104c and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.