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mamas

[mah-muh; for 1 also muh-mah]

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noun

Informal. mother.

Slang.

a sexually attractive, usually mature woman.

one's wife.

Also, mamma.

Origin:
1545–55; nursery word, with parallels in other European languages, probably in part inherited or borrowed, in part newly formed; compare Latin mamma, Greek mámmē breast, mama (see mamma²), French maman mama, Welsh mam mother (< *mammā)

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a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.

a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.

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mama

early 19c. spelling variant of mamma (q.v.). Meaning "sexually attractive woman" first recorded 1925 in black slang; mama's boy "soft, effeminate male" is from 1896.

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