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  • noun colloquial mother, mum

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Examples

  • She won't put up with any mamsie pamsie behavior — not since my "accident".

    French Word-A-Day: 2010

  • She won't put up with any mamsie pamsie behavior — not since my "accident".

    mansuetude - French Word-A-Day 2010

  • She won't put up with any mamsie pamsie behavior—not since my "accident".

    French Word-A-Day: 2010

  • She won't put up with any mamsie pamsie behavior—not since my "accident".

    mansuetude - French Word-A-Day 2010

  • But the thinkin 'place and the part of her that used to say' Joan, darlin ',' and 'Darby, my son,' in such a cuddlin 'kind of voice, and -- and -- why, just all the lovin' bit of mamsie is up in heaven!

    Two Little Travellers A Story for Girls Frances Browne Arthur

  • "It is I, mamsie!" he shouted, in what he meant to be his usual voice; but to a sensitive ear -- and what ear is so sensitive as a mother's?

    Agatha Webb Anna Katharine Green 1890

  • And, indeed, Sweetwater was more than usually voluble that morning, -- perhaps because he could not bear his mother's satisfied smile; and when he went out of the house it was with a laugh and a cheery "Good-bye, mamsie" that was in spiking contrast to the irrepressible exclamation of grief which escaped him when the door was closed between them.

    Agatha Webb Anna Katharine Green 1890

  • "Oh, we could, mamsie," said Polly, eagerly, running up to her; "for Ben knows; and he says we can do it."

    Five Little Peppers and How They Grew Margaret Sidney 1884

  • At last she drew near: "I'm tired; do, mamsie, take me!"

    Five Little Peppers and How They Grew Margaret Sidney 1884

  • It was going on towards the middle of the night when Phronsie, whose exciting dreams of mamsie and the boys wouldn't let her rest quietly, woke up; and in the very first flash she thought of her cushion.

    Five Little Peppers and How They Grew Margaret Sidney 1884

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