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mamma
  1. (anatomy) The milk-secreting organ of female humans and other mammals which includes the mammary gland and the nipple or teat; a breast; an udder. (plural: mammae)
  2. (meteorology) an accessory cloud like a mammary in appearance, which can form on the underside of most cloud genera
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    1. “When mamma saw the wide staircase leading to the dormitories she was aghast.”
      “He went to attenborough himself and chose it, and mamma thought he was on the cricket-field all the time.”
      “His mamma whupped him with a braided vine and his daddy whupped him with a belt when he deserved it, and then he'd pummel that bag.”
mammy
  1. (childish) mamma; mother
  2. (US, historical, often pejorative) In the southern United States, a black nanny employed to look after white children.
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    1. “The love and care provided by a mammy is irreplaceable.”
      “Her mammy and daddy, Margaret and PJ, along with her brothers Ross and Derek wished Kayleigh a very happy birthday.”
      “Sarah wants to be a nurse like her mammy, Vera, who works in the hospital in Portlaoise.”
mamma
  1. Alternative spelling of mama: mother.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “When mamma saw the wide staircase leading to the dormitories she was aghast.”
      “He went to attenborough himself and chose it, and mamma thought he was on the cricket-field all the time.”
      “His mamma whupped him with a braided vine and his daddy whupped him with a belt when he deserved it, and then he'd pummel that bag.”
mammies
  1. plural of mammy
  2. plural of mammie
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    1. “I could tell you a lot of stories about some of my pupil's mammies and daddies and what they got up to over the years, but I'm not going to.”
      “For example, in American cinema they were caricatured as clownish, desexualised mammies or maids.”
      “Families, kids, mammies, daddies and dogs are all welcome to watch if they have an interest in the game.”
mammas
  1. plural of mamma (mother)
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    1. “But really, when we think of Italy, we think of the mammas, not Papa Armani.”
      “Children screaming for their mammas, people with awful wounds, these buildings just pancaked.”
      “One of the mammas at the group, Hanna Gronborg, who moved back here from Brixton, London, with her husband and two-year-old son two months ago, admits that she thought it odd at first.”
mammae
  1. plural of mamma
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    1. “In general, females have enough mammae for each young in the largest litters to have his or her own.”
      “In other features there are no remarkable differences in structure, save that the mammae, always three pairs, may be inguinal.”
      “Borellus remarks that he knew of a woman of ordinary size, each of whose mammae weighed about 30 pounds, and she supported them in bags hung about her neck.”
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