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I s'pose you kain't help takin' to books arter all, seein' as your ma was a school-ma'am Thank you," said Sara, more for the kindness of the tone than the words, and the little domestic squall that time passed over quite harmlessly But these were of daily, almost hourly occurrence.

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  1. noun Informal Mother.

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  • Today 14: 42 now up on the 50 day ma which is a good sign is it not?? onwards and upwards.
  • She wanted to come along down, but her ma was afraid 'twould crowd you Illustration: They approached an open, level place from which there was a magnificent view. —  A Missionary Twig
  • "Them low places are muddy after the rain yesterday, and your ma might be angry if you was to go home with your shoes all muddied. —  A Missionary Twig
  • "The sting produces violent inflammation, and to punish a child with mealum-ma is the severest Lepcha threat." —  Country Walks of a Naturalist with His Children
  • An' I went in to visit her when she hedn't ben there more'n six weeks, on an excursion one convention time, an' I found her all tore up, a good deal as her ma was with the blue racer,--I don't think she's ever ben the same light-hearted little gal sence,--an' from there I took her to New York; an' there she fell in with a nice woman that was awful good to her, an' they went to Europe, an' it cost a heap. —  Aladdin ; Co. A Romance of Yankee Magic
 

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  1. Short for mama.

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  1. A childish name, usually mama: see mama.
  2. Italian (= French mais), but, from Latin magis, more: see magister.
  3. Polynesian.
 

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