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mama or mam·ma [mah-muh; for 1 also muh-mah] ExamplesWord Origin See more synonyms for mama on Thesaurus.com noun
- Informal. mother1.
- Slang.
- a sexually attractive, usually mature woman.
- one’s wife.
Origin of mama 1545–55; nursery word, with parallels in other European languages, probably in part inherited or borrowed, in part newly formed; compare Latin mamma, Greek mámmē breast, mama (see mamma2), French maman mama, Welsh mam mother (*mammā) Related Words for mama grandmother, parent, mommy, girl, queen, adult, female, mum, matron, matriarch, mama, ma, doll, empress, bitch, rib, broad, dame, babe, baroness Examples from the Web for mama Contemporary Examples of mama
Mama, I understand your many sleepless nights / When you sit and think about father / Or how you tried to be the perfect wife.
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If only Tupac was alive to see one of our finest actresses shakin’ what her mama gave her to “Hit ‘Em Up.”
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For the audience, it was just a young girl calling for her mama, but for Walter, it was perfect.
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And if both women are more amoral and avaricious than Ma Joad and Mama Younger, well, so are we.
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The point of the ritual is to announce to the ancestors (through “Mama,”) our intentions, and earn their consent to continue.
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Historical Examples of mama
Don’t you think you really ought to know more about him, mama?
Booth Tarkington
That’s just what mama and I have been feeling so much; they don’t appreciate you.
Booth Tarkington
“Mama, I heard you in papa’s room,” Alice said, not dropping the note of complaint.
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Mama, it was because of those things that came out about Alice Adams.
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It’s funny; but we don’t often make people think what we want ’em to, mama.
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British Dictionary definitions for mama mama noun
- old-fashioned an informal word for mother 1
Word Origin and History for mama
1707, spelling variant of mamma. Meaning “sexually attractive woman” first recorded 1925 in black slang; mama’s boy “soft, effeminate male” is from 1901.