mommy
- noun
- /ˈmɑːmi/
- Baby Talk
- - I want to stay with you, Mommy.
- mommy or mother
- mommy and daddy
- tell mommy
So kids are like, Mommy, what the fuck is going on?
- So kids are like, Mommy, what the fuck is going on?
- Like I was like, Mommy, I can quit.
- You look a little child and it's like mommy, daddy, why, why, why, why?
- But yeah, he saw mommy kissing, kissing, kissing Santa Claus.
- They refuse, refuse to say mommy or Mama or anything.
- And of course being a mommy's boy, that helped as well.
Examples
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Thomas whispers to me, "If Mommy goes away forever, will you still visit?"
Fiction book (1991) -
So I'm with my mommy now and we are shopping.
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We're going to go, and Mommy helped pick it out.
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How do you tell the story? "Mommy, Mommy, where did I come from?"
Academic text (2007) -
And he called out to his mommy, "Mommy, Mommy, come quickly."
Academic text (1999) -
Are we there yet, Mommy?
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James, please tell mommy where you got that candy.
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Mommy, where did you meet Daddy?
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Children, what are we doing in here when mommy's trying to work?
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When I feel sad, I always want my mommy to give me a hug.
Synonyms
A woman who has given birth to a child
A woman who has a child and cares for them
A child's word for their mother
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 mother called jokingly by schoolboys in Britain
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 warm, informal word for a mother in Spanish-speaking families
A child's loving word for mother
A word children use for their mother
A loving name a child uses for their mother
A woman who has a child and cares for them
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
Compounds
How Affectionate
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word mommy comes from the simple baby sound mama, which people use in many languages to mean 'mother'. It is a child's form of mom, so it's the word a young child uses to call their 'mother'.