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- noun Mother.
from The Century Dictionary.
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mum .
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- noun US, colloquial, familiar
mother ,momma .
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- noun informal terms for a mother
Etymologies
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Examples
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The hockey mom, you know, \'oh, I\'m just a hockey mom\ '... and she\'s facing down President Putin ...
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There's a darn good reason that the word mom comes first in "mompreneur."
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Sandy Abrams 2012
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I think my mom is the best cook and so I never eat out.
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OBVIOUSLY our mom is awesome, because she gave birth to US, although if our mom had realized the foaming weirdly-dressed pinko communist her wholehearted support of our early childhood activities would produce, she would have maybe thought twice about telling us we could be whatever we wanted to be in our life.
Archive 2010-05-01 2010
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My mom, you know, my mom is a psychoanalyst, and she used to say - sort of adding to what Anya said about therapists in their own therapy.
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My mom, you know, my mom is a psychoanalyst, and she used to say - sort of adding to what Anya said about therapists in their own therapy.
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I felt (and feel) safe and protected; and I have meaningful relationships with my family (my mom is my best friend) and those around me.
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OBVIOUSLY our mom is awesome, because she gave birth to US, although if our mom had realized the foaming weirdly-dressed pinko communist her wholehearted support of our early childhood activities would produce, she would have maybe thought twice about telling us we could be whatever we wanted to be in our life.
HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY 2010
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And his mom is a Cardiac Center nurse: She was so impressed by the team that treated her son she decided to join it.
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And your mom is a GENIUS for starting them Tupperware parties, huh?
Think Progress » Democrats Need To Pass A Comprehensive Health Care Bill 2010
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Americans invented the term “tiger mom” – dads get off free in this scenario – to describe the overbearing parent who burnishes their five-year-old’s CV, a dynamic you can drift into without ever fully meaning to.
Say goodbye to the 'tiger mom'. Welcome to the school of jellyfish parenting | Emma Brockes Emma Brockes 2022
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Perhaps you, too, can relate to the concept of “polywork” (that is, working multiple jobs) or having been raised by a diet-obsessive “almond mom.”
TikTok is full of tryhard slang Rebecca Jennings 2024
brtom commented on the word mom
as in soccer mom, the newly significant type of voter courted by both candidates during the presidential campaign. That phrase spun off other designations such as minivan mom and waitress mom.
http://www.americandialect.org/index.php/amerdial/1996_words_of_the_ye/
December 9, 2006
oroboros commented on the word mom
WOW! MOM!
December 2, 2007
sonofgroucho commented on the word mom
Translates to mum in the UK.
December 2, 2007
sionnach commented on the word mom
Jane Smiley's memoir of her mother.
February 1, 2008
thesaraheffect commented on the word mom
see also hockey mom
June 13, 2009