Read full poem →To balls the world require you too,
And marry papa and mamma desire you,
And your sisters and schoolfellows do.
Dictionary Entry
The milk-secreting organ of female humans and other mammals which includes the mammary gland and the nipple or teat; a breast; an udder. (plural: mammae)
Origin
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Common Phrases
. mammasaid mammamamma dear
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Poetry examples for “mamma”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →Here we are, you see, with the seven-and-seventy boxes,
Courier, Papa and Mamma, the children, and Mary and Susan:
Here we all are at Rome, and delighted of course with St. Peter’s,
Read full poem →Not without prospects, we hear; and, George says, highly connected.
Georgy declares it absurd, but Mamma is alarmed, and insists he has
Taken up strange opinions, and may be turning a Papist.
Read full poem →You will imagine my feelings,--the blending of hope and of sorrow.
How can I bear to abandon Papa and Mamma and my Sisters?
Dearest Louise, indeed it is very alarming; but, trust me