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MAMMA
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Irregular inflected form: mammae
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Milk-secreting organ of female mammals
Synonyms:
mamma; mammary gland
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("mamma" is a kind of...):
duct gland; exocrine; exocrine gland (a gland that secretes externally through a duct)
Meronyms (parts of "mamma"):
mamilla; mammilla; nipple; pap; teat; tit (the small projection of a mammary gland)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "mamma"):
dug (an udder or breast or teat)
bag; udder (mammary gland of bovids (cows and sheep and goats))
boob; bosom; breast; knocker; tit; titty (either of two soft fleshy milk-secreting glandular organs on the chest of a woman)
Holonyms ("mamma" is a part of...):
female mammal (animals that nourish their young with milk)
Derivation:
mammary (of or relating to the milk-giving gland of the female)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Informal terms for a mother
Synonyms:
ma; mama; mamma; mammy; mom; momma; mommy; mum; mummy
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("mamma" is a kind of...):
female parent; mother (a woman who has given birth to a child (also used as a term of address to your mother))
Context examples:
"How's the little mamma? Where is everybody? Why didn't you tell me before I came home?" began Laurie in a loud whisper.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
“There is a gentleman with him, mamma,” said Kitty; “who can it be?”
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
“’Cos you’ve ’urt yer pore little leg, pore little mamma’s darlin’.”
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
But papas and mammas, and brothers, and intimate friends are a good deal gone by, to most of the frequenters of Bath—and the honest relish of balls and plays, and everyday sights, is past with them.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
We should all have liked her a great deal better; and papa and mamma always think it was her great friend Lady Russell's doing, that she did not.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
Mamma was an abject slave to their caprices, but Papa was not so easily subjugated, and occasionally afflicted his tender spouse by an attempt at paternal discipline with his obstreperous son.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
What a pity it is, mamma, we did not all go.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
"My brother," whispered one of the girls; "mamma is thinking of poor Richard."
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
Your mamma prefers other accomplishments, I fancy.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
Mamma would like to go too of all things!
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
