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mammy
noun- a mother UK, 1523
- Bereaved, black-weeded, inconsolable, her mammy has taken to bed. — Guardian, 23 September 2002
- in a striptease act, a woman, usually older, who waits backstage, catching a stripper’s clothing as she flings it offstage US
- — Don Wilmeth, The Language of American Popular Entertainment, p. 166, 1981
- the most; the ultimate example US
An English language version of the famous Arabic MOTHER OF ALL- — Hermese E. Roberts, The Third Ear, 1971
▶ the mammy
my mother IRELAND
There is no indefinite article in Irish. The definite article in Hiberno-English, following and sometimes extending the usage of the indefinite article “an” in Irish, has some distinctive functions which mark it out from standard English, for example, “Better give her the both o’ them”, (Roddy Doyle, The Van, 1991).- [T]he new wife, when she moved in, made it clear that certain changes would have to be expedited forthwith or she would ship straight back out and home to The Mammy. — Joseph O’Connor, The Irish Male at Home and Abroad, p. 46, 1996
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