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mom·ma

 (mä′mə)
n.
Variant of mama.
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momma

(ˈmɒmə)
n
US and Canadian another word for mother1
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mom•ma

(ˈmɒm ə)

n., pl. -mas.
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Noun1.momma - informal terms for a mothermomma - informal terms for a mother    
female parent, mother - a woman who has given birth to a child (also used as a term of address to your mother); "the mother of three children"
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Translations
mami

momma

[ˈmɒmə] N (US) mommy [ˈmɒmɪ] N (US) → mamá f
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

momma

[ˈmɒmə] n (Am) (fam) → mamma
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References in classic literature ?
"She told that fib about her momma, as if she did know, and colored up when the flowers came quite prettily.
From the moment we started moving, momma cat started yowling and tearing at the cardboard box.
"We live in a multi-media world," says Michael Decker, Founder of the Momma Lynn family of businesses.
GREYHOUND Mommas recently held a Craft Fair and Coffee Morning in Abergele and raised PS241.12.
"My nephew later on called her momma. And we were older, a little older, it was not momma anymore, it was, I am going to marry you.
A coming-of-age story inundated with grief, trauma, and uncertainty, RenA[c]e Watson's What Momma Left Me is a heartbreaking and intense young adult novel.
When daylight came, an agitated momma bear could be seen watching over the bin.
That's what Donnie Carter's momma told him at the bus depot in Lafayette, Louisiana, in the Spring of 1980, as she walked him to the diesel-huffing Greyhound.
Since time immemorial, momma chewing has been a favorite pastime and and habit of Ifugaos.
Now it has emerged there has been a change of plan after the people behind Big Momma's backed out.
The little girls knew something was wrong, but as most children have done throughout the years, they relied on Poppa and Momma to make it right.
Momma had called because a friend of a friend of a friend's brother wanted me to take some rich Yankee hunting.