mami
- noun
- /ˈmɑːmi/
- Informal
- -Where's your mami?
Examples
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"So always, always, you must tell your mami the truth."
Fiction book (1997) -
- How you doin', mami?
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Yes, we are going to get your dress, mami, don't worry.
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I guess papi does know what mami wants.
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My mami, my papi, my big head brothers, my sister.
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You know, it didn't have to go down like this, mami.
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Hope that's okay with you, mami.
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For you, mami, anything.
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Come on, mami.
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I love my mami and appreciate everything she does for me.
Synonyms
A woman who has a child and cares for them
A child's word for their mother
A child's word for mom
A friendly informal name people use for their mother
A woman who gave you birth or cared for you
A child's informal name for their mother
A child's word for their mother
A woman who cares for a child and helps them grow
A woman who is a mother or cares for children
An informal name for a mother used in some English-speaking areas
An informal word people use for mother
A polite, affectionate word for mother used in parts of the UK and Ireland
A child's loving word for mother
A word children use for their mother
A loving name a child uses for their mother
Respectful or loving word for mother used in South Asian families
A warm informal name used for a mother in Urdu and Hindi
A loving word for mother used in Wales
How Affectionate
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word mami is a Spanish, more loving form of mamá, and it comes from the very simple baby sound mama that many languages use for 'mother'. So mami is a warm, family word people use to mean 'mom'.