Usage examples (7)

• Colleagues recalled her spiky wit and den-mother affection for fellow writers.
• The goal would be to keep hurt from those who were hers, as dangerously fierce a den-mother as her little tribe of humans had ever seen.
• Some people, when discussing the ho-humness of this season of "Idol," point to the loss of judge Paula who, for the first eight seasons, was the show's resident weirdsmobile...
• "You have tarnished the image of France," Health and Sports Minister Roselyne Bachelot said she told the disgraced players during a den-mother moment in the locker room...