mamma

nom

1. 1

   The milk-secreting organ of female humans and other mammals which includes the mammary gland and the nipple or teat; a breast; an udder.

   Either sex under special stimulations is capable of manifesting powers ordinarily shown only by the other […] Thus, to take an extreme case, the mammæ of men will, under special excitation, yield milk: there are various cases of gynecomasty on record, and in famines infants whose mothers have died have been thus saved.

2. 2

   An accessory cloud like a mammary in appearance, which can form on the underside of most cloud genera.

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1. 1

   Variante de mamaAlternative spelling of mama.

   The Ideas of the Nurſe, and the Mother, are vvell framed in their Minds; and, like Pictures of them there, repreſent only thoſe Individuals. The Names they firſt give to them, are confined to theſe Individuals; and the names of Nurſe, and Mamma, the Child uſes, determine themſelves to thoſe Perſons.

   This begets Scorn, hovv can one stand in avve, / Of a vain Tavvdry, Amorous Mamma.

   I can't but say that his mamma was right, / If such an education was the true one.

   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.

interjection

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   Variante de mamaAlternative spelling of mama.

   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.

verbe

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   Variante de mamaAlternative spelling of mama.

   Priſc[illa] vvill Mamma-up Mrs. Sinclair, and vvill undertake to court her guardian to let her paſs a delightful vveek vvith her.

   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?

   [W]hen the next Sunday two and the third Sunday four babies cooed and mammaed and howled in chorus it was more than he could stand.

   I've been pretty out of the loop—immersed in my small world of day-to-day living, working and baby-mammaing.

Formes

pluriel

mammae, mammas

passé

mammaed

participe passé

mammaed

participe présent

mammaing

3ᵉ personne du singulier

mammas