mam
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8.2
- noun
- /mæm/
- UK
:
mamá
- You can always count on your mam to support you in difficult times.
- mam and dad
- tell my mam
- want my mam
And I was like, ah, no, Mam is business.
- And I was like, ah, no, Mam is business.
Examples
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Your mam would have been so proud of you.
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Shush, don't wake your Mam.
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You just wait till I tell me mam it's you.
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You had to look after your mam, right?
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My mam, she took it bad.
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Does she come and visit you, does she, eh, your mam?
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Is your Mam in, lad?
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My mam's sent me two tickets for the Town Hall concert.
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Your mam's a barrel of laughs compared to me dad!
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"Me mam says we've got to see you eat right," Cletus replied.
Fiction book (2002)
Synonyms
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1.0
A woman who has a child and cares for them
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1.0
A child's word for their mother
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1.0
A child's word for mom
735
7.9
A friendly informal name people use for their mother
223
1.9
A woman who gave you birth or cared for you
202
7.7
A child's informal name for their mother
98
5.6
A child's word for their mother
32
7.5
A woman who cares for a child and helps them grow
24
9.8
A woman who is a mother or cares for children
19
9.1
An informal name for a mother used in some English-speaking areas
12
9.9
An informal word people use for mother
5
8.8
A warm, informal word for a mother in Spanish-speaking families
2
9.5
A child's loving word for mother
2
7.9
A loving name a child uses for their mother
2
9.0
A word children use for their mother
A loving word for mother used in Wales
Respectful or loving word for mother used in South Asian families
A warm informal name used for a mother in Urdu and Hindi
Compounds
How Affectionate
Surface Forms
Etymology
Mam comes from the simple baby word mama, which children use for 'mother' in many languages, and it is like English mom or mum. That's why people in parts of the UK and Ireland use mam as a warm, polite way to say 'mother'.