How to pronounce“mama”in English
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Definitions of “mama”
Synonym of mother (“a female parent”).
“I love the cookies which mama bakes me every week.”
Synonym of mother (“a female parent”).
“The exhibition of the New Society of Water-Colour Painters has grown to be quite as handsome and agreeable as that of its mamma, the old Society in Pall Mall East.”
Often preceded by oh: used to express approval, joy, surprise, etc.
“He do n't do a thing in the world except travel around with some more o' them handy boys and lay for jack-pots. And the talk he gives you! Mamma! He 's better 'n any o' them shell-workers that used to graft out at the gover'ment pier.”
Synonym of mother (“to treat (someone) as a mother would be expected to treat her child; to nurture”).
“What shall be the effeminating effect upon the rising generation if the brave men of today are to be mammaed by a crew of timid Supervisors?”
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