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mami

nounnounattested in dialogue

mommy, mother

noun

  1. 1

    mommy, mother

  2. 2

    attractive woman; momma

  3. 3

    a term of affection for a woman

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish mami.

noun

  1. 1

    A soup dish of wheat noodles or cellophane noodles mixed with meat of either pork, chicken, pork liver, beef brisket, and/or fresh or dried seafood such as shrimp or squid, and/or wonton dumplings, and vegetables, such as cabbage, carrots, spring onion, etc.

    One brought two boxes of instant mami noodles.

    When her awaited bus arrives, she passes up instant mami noodles for a chance to dip her hand in a box of old shoes.

    A new era came in the 90's when the Generation Y (Gen Y), born in the mid-70's to mid-80's, started trickling into the urban development craze with the booming of malls and instant products from instant mami to instant coffee to instant beauty.

Etymology

Borrowed from Tagalog mami, from Hokkien. Doublet of bakmi.

Forms

plural
mamis
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).