mamma
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3VERB + MAMMA
asked, told
MAMMA + NOUN
'kerchief, leone, morning, s
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in
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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.
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.
An accessory cloud like a mammary in appearance, which can form on the underside of most cloud genera.
noun
Alternative spelling of mama: mother.
1856, Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary, Part III Chapter XI, translated by Eleanor Marx-Aveling The next day Charles had the child brought back. She asked for her mamma. They told her she was away; that she would bring her back some playthings.
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5Either 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
Wiktionary1856, Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary, Part III Chapter XI, translated by Eleanor Marx-Aveling The next day Charles had the child brought back. She asked for her mamma. They told her she was away; tha
WiktionaryAnd mamma in her 'kerchief, and I in my cap, had just settled our brains for a long winter's nap.
Tatoeba · #6399668Mamma Leone’s, in New York, helped bring Italian cuisine to the American masses.
Tatoeba · #9341318Why, you told mamma this morning that you were going to bring a ‘muttonhead’ home for dinner this evening.
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