Mamma
['mæmə;mə'mɑː] or ['mɑmə]
Definition
(n.) Mother; -- word of tenderness and familiarity.
(n.) A glandular organ for secreting milk, characteristic of all mammals, but usually rudimentary in the male; a mammary gland; a breast; under; bag.
Editor: Margaret
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [Childish term.] Mother.
n. [L. pl. Mammas.] Breast, teat, dug, udder.
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Examples
- But, mamma, you have been in this neighbourhood before. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- You talk in such a way about 'mamma' it is enough to make one jealous of the old lady. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- I could not leave papa and mamma. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- Still, mamma could see to those while we were away. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Never mind, mamma; you'd as lief as not Topsy should do it,--had you not? Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Only Mamma and your mother. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- Mamma thought the dear too young to be taught to conquer his prejudices, but Papa believed that it never was too soon to learn obedience. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Mamma dear, lisped the little girl, baby ood have put hith eyeth out. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- The next thing he will break, mamma, whispered Sarah, will be the back of the best arm-chair. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Don't I know what mamma says about him? Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Your mamma prefers other accomplishments, I fancy. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- There is a gentleman with him, mamma, said Kitty; who can it be? Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- I do not want to vex you; and besides, we must speak gently, for mamma is asleep; but your whole manner offends me--' 'How! Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- I know he draws, and that will take him out of your way, mamma. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- Now, don't you think we could get mamma there with Dixon, while you and I go and look at houses, and get one all ready for her in Milton? Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- Making a simpleton, a warning, and an example of myself, before a hundred and fifty of the 'papas' and 'mammas' of Villette. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Perhaps she wanted them for her daughters; and yet, that beauty soon fades is the cry of most moral mammas. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- Of what else do their dear mammas think? William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
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