godmother

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Jeffrey Epstein came in as a financial fairy godmother to wrangle the purse strings back from Noam's kids.

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(transitive) To act as godmother to.

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verb

(transitive) To act as godmother to.

noun

A woman present at the christening of a baby who promises to help raise the child in a Christian manner; a female godparent who sponsors the baptism of a child.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for godmother.

verb

(transitive) To act as godmother to.

noun

A woman present at the christening of a baby who promises to help raise the child in a Christian manner; a female godparent who sponsors the baptism of a child.

Example sentences

Jeffrey Epstein came in as a financial fairy godmother to wrangle the purse strings back from Noam's kids.

Now known as the godmother of AI, Li made intellectual connections at Princeton that inspired her groundbreaking research.

If you call on your fairy godmother, maybe you'll see me coming and you can run away in time.

The magic market fairy godmother has decided that TVs with built in ads and spyware are good for you.

Some time ago, my mother-in-law (erstwhile teacher) and my godmother-aunty (businesswoman) began to forget many things.

More than that, this quantum killer Maxwell demon would be a fairy Godmother in disguise.

Sit around theorizing until the perfect platform with a perfectly-sized userbase with perfect demographics is presented to you by your fairy godmother?

So yes - as a young man I accidentally DoS'ed my Godmother because of stupidity and Stella Artois.

The classmate is now the godmother of my son who was born in Taiwan.) Most people don't have the courage to go to prison--especially prisons like those in Taiwan at the time.

They're not your fairy godmother, but at least they're honest about what they want.

The fairy godmother comment is pretty spot on - she's plays the part of the consensus builder and conscience to various disparate technical parties.

But my parents' friends who kept working a bit (like my godmother who kept supervising her real estate agency): she stayed sharp and fit.

Quote examples

Given the fascist tendencies all around it actually makes me feel safer My Polish-German godmother asked me, as a kid, "who would you hide." I didn't get the question.

- Guess my wishes: I think the "Fairy Godmother" better stay fairy tale.

The Godmother of Punk recalled coming to New York in 1967 when she was broke and the city was "'down and out,' and you could get a cheap apartment and 'build a whole community of transvestites or artists or writers.'" But today, she says, "New York has closed itself off to the young and the struggling.

A few days later my godmother phoned me up: "Do you remember what you did a few days ago?" "I think I phoned you up?" It turns out that while she was talking at length I had passed out from the booze.