Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Informal Mother.
- n. Slang A woman.
- n. Slang A wife.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Mother: a word used chiefly in address and familiar intercourse, especially by and with infants, children, and young people.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. See mamma.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a name under which Ninkhursag was worshipped
- n. informal terms for a mother
Etymologies
- From a reduplication of ma; a trend present in many Indo-European languages, probably with ultimate origin in baby talk; or perhaps representing, in altered form, a continuation of Middle English mome ("mother, aunt"), from Proto-Germanic *mōmōn (“mother, aunt”), from Proto-Indo-European *méh₂-méh₂, reduplication of *méh₂- (“mother”), related to German Muhme ("aunt"), Latin mamma ("mother, nurse"), Irish mam ("mother"), Lithuanian mama, moma ("mother"). (Wiktionary)
- Of baby-talk origin; see mā-2 in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Morton the good knight, "and to her mother as" the Princess Pauline, "or" one's mama, "giving to _mama_ the French pronunciation.”
“Gladiator sport' is the term mama and I use for that show.”
“Your mama is also doomed to disappear, you idiot cannot even spell the words right”
“Everybody and their mama is doing a documentary on Obama," he said during an interview for his new Sundance film "The Passing Strange.”
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“Your mama is still feeding the baby sister that same banana because her bites are so dumb and small, but at least now she has a wipe out for all the spit and goo.”
“I bet it was somebody's school bag, she says, and you wonder if your mama is just lying to make you shut your mouth, or if she really wasn't worried on the train.”
“How do you access the shelves in the stairwell? andy on 09 Mar 2009 at 9: 15 pm # hahaha – push mama from the front porch”
“I called my mama, he says above the rain, asked if I could use her place since she had the room.”
“My Rachel is now 12 and I do worry and get scared and there have been many major scares and trips to the ER and last year well I just was in mama bear mode most of the year as we dealt with bullying.”
“A good lesson will teach begining to high level skills all at the same time, keeping all kids engaged. dolphin mama”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘mama’.
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Americanism
American words
finest, fast food, acclimate, aluminum, alphabetize, airplane, affirmative action, arugula, backhoe, bangs, base board, bayou and 162 more...
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FUN - Beatles song titles
Typical words from Beatles song titles. Can you recreate the titles?
(Grammatical words have been omitted)another, three, place, work, eyes, new, said, give, face, day, going, like and 388 more...
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EN - baby talk
whoopsie, kitty, baba, beddy-bye, binkie, blankie, boo-boo, botty, bow-wow, brekkie, brekfee, bubby and 84 more...
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ttobba's Words
graph, amore, labrador, sun, boreal, norsk, coffee, cafe, pekin, peking, train, rail and 97 more...
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Jamaican Glossary
The liner notes that accompany Papa San's dancehall album God & i include this thoughtful list of Jamaican-to-American translations, to aid in understanding what the heck he's saying in each song.
yah, yeh, yuy, woulda, wort, wid, wi, wes', wen, whey, wau, wanda and 151 more...
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sourashtra
This list gives the english meanings of sourashtra words. Its language classification is : Indo-European, Indo-Iranian, Indo-Aryan, Central zone, Gujarati. Ethnologue code is ISO 639-3: saz. (
Tu, a, kOn, Kaai, laath, kha, ninji, miski, dhooL, saa, pay, huut and 266 more...
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Isograms
Words with each letter repeated the same number of times. The pattern of repetition is tagged: 1212, 1221, 121122, 122121, 121233, 122133, 123123, 123132, 123213, 123231, 123312, 123321, 12123434, ...
deeded, sestettes, geggee, appeases, caucasus, isis, cancan, intestines, mesosome, palpal, valval, mama and 154 more...
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Déjà wordie?
pom-pom, mama, gaga, muumuu, cancan, dodo, aye-aye, kaka, dada, boo-boo, coco, lulu and 18 more...
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Toot Toot, Beep Beep!
chichi, tomtom, weewee, poohpooh, tutu, tsetse, ta-ta, peepee, woop woop, ack-ack, ding-ding, bon bon and 44 more...
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Ladies' Night
girl, lady, madame, miss, missy, woman, dame, mother, daughter, sister, aunt, grandmother and 50 more...
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Ellynguistix
First 50 words for miss Elise, before age 2. Today's date is 6/18/07.
Top ten most commonly said words are, in order: (1) Ow (2) Nooooo (3) Kitty (4) Mama (5) Monkey (6) Up (6) Food (7...mama, kitty, meow, monkey, ducky, quack, doggie, arf, eat, food, door, oh god and 38 more...
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Victorian female english
Use this words and become a young lady from some of Jane Austen's books.
coquettish, acquaintance, agreeable, delightful, entirely, sweetest, particularly, pretty, indeed, dearest, pleasant, marriage and 58 more...
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False Friends
"False Friend" is a linguistic term for words that appear in more than one language, but with entirely different meanings. They can cause a lot of problems for the unwary tourist.
kill, fatal, lawman, sky, city, slut, alone, bless, fart, bog, arse, turd and 39 more...
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Words my 16-month-old son knows
Words Art can say, on his own. He understands much more.
dog, bye bye, hi, mama, dada, that, bubble, box, clock, shoe, sock, car and 12 more...
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double double
found on a little post-it in a library book
walla-walla, tomtom, couscous, bonbon, pompom, froufrou, chi-chi, poopoo, booboo, pooh-pooh, pupu, tutu and 5 more...
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It's All Relative
parent, child, sibling, mother, father, brother, sister, grandfather, grandmother, aunt, uncle, cousin and 22 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for mama.
bilby 'familiar intercourse' Aug 20, 2011
dontcry Hey - I just heard this recently pronunced word pronounced!
No I didn't. :-(
*mama!* Aug 20, 2011
tbtabby Means "father" in Georgian. Jul 13, 2009