refrigerator mother
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.60 in modern English
27
Scrabble Score
18
Letters
7
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "It was not until 1943 that Dr. Leo Kanner, an American pschiatrist, first diagnosed the syndrome in 11 children. . . . Kanner and others once postulated that these children were the products of "refrigerator mothers," women who are overly cold and intellectual."
- "No present-day researcher takes the idea of the refrigerator mother as the cause of autism seriously."