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mam

noun
/mæm/

Etymology

Alteration or clipping of mama. Compare Scots mam, Early Scots mame (“mother”), mamye (“wet nurse”), Saterland Frisian Määme (“mother”), West Frisian mem (“mother”). Alternatively, possibly either conserved from or influenced by earlier Brythonic language.

  1. borrowed from Mam — “Mum, Mom”

Definitions

  1. Mum, mom

    Mum, mom; diminutive of mother.

  2. A woman's breast.

    • There was another teacher […] who came to class fairly often wearing a thin silk blouse and NO BRA. Her 'mams' bounced appropriately, which was of course utterly FASCINATING for every boy in the class.
    • She focused her entire mind on that moment she had shared with Shan, the softness of her mams, the wetness of her lips.

  3. Misspelling of ma'am.

  4. ›+ 3 more definitions

    1. A Mayan language spoken in the Mexican state of Chiapas and the Guatemalan departments of…

      A Mayan language spoken in the Mexican state of Chiapas and the Guatemalan departments of Quetzaltenango, Huehuetenango, San Marcos, and Retalhuleu.

    2. One’s mother.

      • Need a cwtch from Mam I do.

    3. Initialism of methylazoxymethanol

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for mam. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA