mamma
/ˈmæmə/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.32 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
2
Syllables
2
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The milk-secreting organ of female humans and other mammals which includes the mammary gland and the nipple or teat; a breast; an udder.
noun
An accessory cloud like a mammary in appearance, which can form on the underside of most cloud genera.
noun
Alternative spelling of mama.
intj
Alternative spelling of mama.
Example Sentences
- "Either sex under special stimulations is capable of manifesting powers ordinarily shown only by the other […] Thus, to take an extreme case, the mammæ of men will, under special excitation, yield milk: there are various cases of gynecomasty on record, and in famines infants whose mothers have died have been thus saved."
- "The Ideas of the Nurſe, and the Mother, are vvell framed in their Minds; and, like Pictures of them there, repreſent only thoſe Individuals. The Names they firſt give to them, are confined to theſe Individuals; and the names of Nurſe, and Mamma, the Child uſes, determine themſelves to thoſe Perſons."
- "This begets Scorn, hovv can one stand in avve, / Of a vain Tavvdry, Amorous Mamma."
- "I can't but say that his mamma was right, / If such an education was the true one."
- "The exhibition of the New Society of Water-Colour Painters has grown to be quite as handsome and agreeable as that of its mamma, the old Society in Pall Mall East."
- "That they should spend their Christmas at Merle Park was an acknowledged thing;—to mamma Tringle an acknowledged benefit, because she liked to have her daughter with her; to papa Tringle an acknowledged evil, because he could not endure to be made to give more than he intended to give."
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin mamma.
Usage
Inflected Forms
Derived Forms
mammal
mammalgia
mammaplasty
mammary
mammate
mammatroph
mammectomy
mammiferous
mammiform
mammilla
mammiplasia
mammitis