Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A colloquial or vulgar abbreviation of mama.
- n. Same as ma'am, contraction of madam.
- n. An abbreviation of mammalogy.
Wiktionary
- n. Diminutive of mother.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Mamma.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a Mayan language spoken by the Mam
- n. a member of a Mayan people of southwestern Guatemala
Etymologies
- Possibly either conserved from or influenced by earlier Brythonic language. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Dear Armo: Now, ¡Ay, caramba! might not be as popular or as peculiarly Mexican a swear as, say, "pinche puto pendejo baboso," "¡Cu-le-ro!" or the many epithets derived from the word mamá (mother), but Mexicans do say it-but not as often as gabachos would love to believe, Bart Simpson catchphrase notwithstanding.”
“I saw this at the flicks in the 70's, my mam was a loon for Elvis, but I remember really enjoying it even though I was just a kid. edward great article/review hunter. thanks for referencing ashby's awesome "bound for glory". you ever talk to jody hill and the gang about ashby?”
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“Some readers of this blog may remember when Jack Webb used to say in "Dragnet," "Just the facts, 'mam" - something that FORTUNE's Jessi Hempel and Assistant Managing Editor Stephanie Mehta should have remembered.”
“The more commonly used phrase 'Your mam is the town bike' means that everyone has had a go.”
“Now, ¡Ay, caramba! might not be as popular or as peculiarly Mexican a swear as, say, "pinche puto pendejo baboso," ¡Cu-le-ro! "or the many epithets derived from the word mamá (mother), but Mexicans do say it - but nowadays not as often as gabachos would love to believe, Bart Simpson catchphrase notwithstanding.”
“My mam is a Catholic but my dad is an atheist academic, a sort of angry sociologist, so I had the two, the rational versus the irrational.”
“My mam is a high level bank manager, she got from telephone receptionist to her current job”
“The dish also comes with a basket of leafy greens, a small dish of sesame crackers and peanuts, and most crucially, a smelly-but-delicious sauce of fermented anchovies called mam nem.”
“I was a newly certified therapeutic riding instructor, all of 24 and I looked about 16, plus I kept calling everyone "mam" which doesn't exactly put you in the authority position.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘mam’.
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Obscure Airport Codes
A list of airport codes (three-letter trigrams) used in ticketing and routing airplanes, cargo, luggage and passengers. The twist - these are obscure out of the way places most of us will never ve...
aat, abk, abm, abt, aci, adk, aer, aey, ahu, ajr, akf, akv and 111 more...
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Palabras de 3 letras en Español.
¡La única lista que también incluye flexiónes verbales y pluralizaciones! Ayúdame a encontrarlas todas.
(Por ser una lista para Scrabble, los dígrafos ll, rr, y ch valen como una sola ...aba, aca, aga, ahe, ahi, aho, aja, aje, aji, ajo, ala, ale and 427 more...
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Twitter favorites
The new favourite words of people on Twitter.
A script searches Twitter for "X is my new favorite word" and adds it to this list.
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unfathomably, glice, cuh, fab, ciggaty, doll, thuggin, oxymoronic, pineapple, succubutt, griming, cheeky and 2369 more... -
Léxico de Scrabble Avanzado
Lista de palabras útiles, raras o esotéricas para Scrabble en Español recopiladas de partidas ordinarias.
Todas las palabras se encuentran en el DRAE.
Algunas palabras po...acocarse, ahelear, helear, pirulo, apirularse, sapirulo, pingar, mugar, her, dino, coquee, otri and 588 more...
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Català is a 3-letter words language
tot, res, cap, nas, dit, peu, ull, pèl, pit, cul, got, sot and 6 more...
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Palindromical words!
palindromes!! words spelled the same both ways
noon, racecar, eye, tit, sis, madam, kayak, radar, civic, level, sexes, deleveled and 6 more...
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mummy dearest
words for the female parental unit.
mum, mummy, mother, ma, mama, mutter, mutti, mumsy, muddah, mom, matriarch, mumles and 10 more...
Tweets
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hernesheir Code for Servando Canales airport, Matamoros, Tamaulipas, Mexico. Dec 29, 2009