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▪ I. mam1 colloq.|mæm|
Also 6 mame, 6–7 mamme.
[Not recorded before the 16th c., the instance in one MS. of the Chester Plays being almost certainly due to a late alteration of the text. It is improbable that the word is adopted from the Welsh mam (:—Protoceltic *mammā); it seems rather to have originated independently from a sound instinctively made by young children; similar words for ‘mother’ exist in many languages. See mamma1.]
A childish (formerly also a familiar or vulgar) word for mother; corresponding to dad n.1, but now more strictly confined to infantine use or allusions to this. † mam's loll: see loll n. 3.
a1500[see dad n.1 1]. 1573Tusser Husb. (1878) 186 Yet cocking Mams, and shifting Dads from schooles, Make pregnant wits to prooue vnlearned fooles. c1580J. Jeffere Bugbears i. ii. 99 in Archiv Stud. neu. Spr. XCVIII. (1897) 309 Oh, thies mammes are exigent, thier daughters prankes to hide. 1590Greene Never too late i. (1600) H 2, When the boy sayes, Mam, where is my Dad, when will he come home? 1611Cotgr., Mammam (the voice of infants), Mam. 1675Cotton Scoffer Scoft 80 Then of this Child hee's Syre and Dam, And it may call him Dad and Mam. 1710E. Ward Brit. Hud. iii. 26 It stroaks Pappa, and beats the Mam. 1757E. Griffith Lett. betw. Henry & Frances (1767) II. 160 Has it [a child] a broad, good-humoured countenance, like dad; or a lively eye,..and saucy look, like mam? 1816‘Quiz’ Grand Master Argt. i. 1 The hero of the tale appears, Leaving his dad and mam in tears. 1872Hartley Yorks. Ditties Ser. ii. 112 Whear is thi' Daddy doy? Whear is thi' mam?
†b. reduplicated. Obs.
1606Sylvester Du Bartas ii. iv. iii. Schism 777 And smiling sweet Mam-mam, mam-mam he cries [F. crie me a mé me].
†c. attrib. and Comb. Obs.
1599Nashe Lenten Stuffe Wks. (Grosart) V. 269 The nurse or mother Mampudding..down she sunk to the earth. 1653R. Carpenter Anabapt. Washt 21 These..Censurers know no other Language than Mam-English, or, their mother tongue.
▪ II. † mam2 Obs. rare—0.
[ad. L. mamma breast.]
1611Florio, Mamma, a pap, a dug, a mam, a breast.
▪ III. mam
obs. form of ma'am. |