Definition of supermum in English:
supermum
(US supermom)
noun ˈsuːpəmʌmˈso͞opərˌmäm
British informal An exemplary or exceptional mother, especially one who successfully manages a home and brings up children while also having a full-time job.
so, just like an '80s supermum, you really can have it all
Example sentencesExamples
- The Have It All supermum has turned into the Do It All drudge.
- Maybe it's just a female thing or the whole supermom thing of women getting straight back to work, because they don't want to fall down the career rung.
- I wonder if I have to be supermum at this age and bake a fancy cake.
- As she herself says in jest, "It's easier to be superboss than to be supermom!"
- Next week the nation will decide whether she is Britain's top supermum in a television phone vote.
- The situation is not helped by crude archetypes in the media of 'working mums' (as if looking after young children isn't work), 'stay-at-home mums' (as if women with jobs are never at home) and 'supermum' - the mythological figure who does it all.
- I'm such a supermum in the kitchen.
- A supermum was today waiting to hear if she has clinched a top national award.
- Manchester supermum Sharon also finds time to study full-time for a degree in computing and helps to run an out-of-school club for blind and special-needs children.
- Stephen Lewis meets a 'supermum' who has cared for more than 100 children - as well as bringing up three of her own.
- She is not a supermum; she is an exceptional woman who has done incredibly well in her job, and I and all my other school mum friends applaud her for that.
- Take breaks whenever you need them - supermum doesn't exist.
- Swindon's supermum is due to give birth to her 15th child in two weeks' time and she isn't ruling out another pregnancy.
- Now 'supermum' Irene, - who has six grandchildren of her own - will take a day off from caring for her three present foster children to travel to London with Roy on July 5th.
- Are women simply turned off by the idea of becoming a "supermum", juggling career and children?
- "The supermum myth is exactly that, a myth," she says.
- In this day and age we mums all have to be supermums.
- Earlier this month there was a flurry of excitement about the death of the supermum - a 1970s media myth - who held down a top job, cooked soufflés and coached the kids in maths all at the same time.
- This comes just weeks after an academic study claimed the era of the "supermum" is over and that increasing numbers of people now believe it is impossible for mothers to juggle careers and the demands of young children.
- The judges said: "Sarah's a real 'supermum', opening her loving arms and friendly home to her sister's two boys."