Definitions
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- noun US, dialect, southern US
grandmother
Etymologies
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Examples
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Even my great memaw wouldn't be caught dead in those!
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That happens to be the same day his kid's memaw, Sarah Palin, appears on Oprah for the first time.
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"ADOPT ME PLEASE," or to go live with her memaw in Olympia, Washington.
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If my own abuelita wouldn't beat me with her chankla and tie me to a tree, I'd say I wished Betty White was my memaw.
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Instead of listening to her den memaw, Elisabeth kept on, kept on.
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It's not fair that my 4-year-old son has to ask why his memaw (ph) can't come home.
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That ho looks pretty fuckin good for a memaw, I wanna see what I and others look like at her age.
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Any memaw who cares as much about my orgasms as I do should be sainted, dammit!
Socialite Life Nicole Steadman 2010
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Don't let a memaw near that place, because that is not real chocolate covered cherry goo.
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I DO NOT want to hear memaw tales of geriatric freakiness.
bilby commented on the word memaw
Any etymological speculation?
February 5, 2015
alexz commented on the word memaw
I think it's from the Southern United States - Sheldon on Big Bang theory uses the term for his grandmother.
February 6, 2015
fbharjo commented on the word memaw
It may have parallel roots to the Gothic 'merjan' - 'to proclaim', but I suspect that it is a false cognate.I declare!
February 6, 2015