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moms

nounnouncommon in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//mɒmz//
  • United States/[mɑmz]/

Affectionate term of address for one's mother.

noun

  1. 1

    Also a form of momplural of mom

Etymology

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

noun

  1. 1

    Affectionate term of address for one's mother.

    but I remember this, moms would lick her finger tips / to wipe the cold out my eye before school with her spit

    My moms, Noojie, had told me that the two little stumps on the sides of my hands came from being born with six fingers, and that's why I was always stealing something.

Etymology

Etymology tree English mom English -syclip. English -s English moms From mom + -s (hypocoristic suffix).

The neighbouring pagesAlphabetical order follows the rules of the language, not byte values: an accent decides only between two otherwise identical words, and Spanish files Ñ as a letter of its own.

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).