mom
/mɑm/
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.12 in modern English
7
Scrabble Score
3
Letters
1
Syllables
2
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Initialism of month-over-month/month-on-month; compared to the same time period in the previous month.
Example Sentences
- "To find out what moms really want this year, we turned to the best source possible: our own mothers."
- "At a very early age, Knowles says she was taught not to draw any attention to herself. “Pretty is as pretty does,” her mom used to say."
- "(spoken by the father) I don't share it with mom! Right, mom?"
- "The shock of my news had worn off, and now she'd want to know where I was, how I was doing, and she'd sniff out that I was with someone. “I just wanted to check in on you.” That was Mom. Totally unashamed about momming me."
- "He tried to tell me how to live, to mom me, I told him fuck off, […]"
- "I wish Mom and Dad didn't argue so much."
Etymology
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /mɑm/
- British English: /mɒm/