Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A mother.
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- noun US, Canada
Mother .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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W&H: The term mommy blogger is kind of loaded nowadays.
Melissa Silverstein: Interview with Katherine Dieckmann, Director of Motherhood 2009
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Gerald Gibson says: no go back to your room, your mommy is about get home and she is going to be very angry at you for being on the internet and speaking to strangers.
Think Progress » Armitage Fears Bombing Campaign Will ‘End Up Empowering Hezbollah’ 2006
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I adore the way they other children yell to my boys “Your mommy is here!” and they run to me and throw their laughing bodies against my legs.
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Joefriday says: no go back to your room, your mommy is about get home and she is going to be very angry at you for being on the internet and speaking to strangers.
Think Progress » Armitage Fears Bombing Campaign Will ‘End Up Empowering Hezbollah’ 2006
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The various products launch into such robo-insults as "is it really true that your mommy is a blender?" and the robots retort with threats to tighten the appliance's fan belt.
Boing Boing: November 5, 2006 - November 11, 2006 Archives 2006
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I prefer to be called communist than a Bush follower, that would be really disappointing. no go back to your room, your mommy is about get home and she is going to be very angry at you for being on the internet and speaking to strangers.
Think Progress » Armitage Fears Bombing Campaign Will ‘End Up Empowering Hezbollah’ 2006
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They create boundaries around certain "mother-only tasks," symbolic things like who gives the bath or the use of the word mommy.
Forbes.com: News 2011
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They create boundaries around certain "mother-only tasks," symbolic things like who gives the bath or the use of the word mommy.
Forbes.com: News Meghan Casserly 2011
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It's like when a kindergartner asks his father if mommy is coming home soon, and the widower replies that she's on a long business trip.
Leo W. Gerard: Republicans Don't Trust Americans Leo W. Gerard 2010
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It's like when a kindergartner asks his father if mommy is coming home soon, and the widower replies that she's on a long business trip.
Leo W. Gerard: Republicans Don't Trust Americans Leo W. Gerard 2010
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