mauman.

Brit.

/ˈmɔːmə/, U.S.

/ˈmɔmə/,

/ˈmɑmə/

Forms: 1800s– mauma, 1800s– maumer, 1900s– maumuh.

Origin: Probably a variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymon: mama n.¹

Etymology: Probably a variant of mama n.¹ (see discussion at that entry). Compare maum n.For occasional forms maumey , maumie see mammy n. Although Dict. Amer. Regional Eng. s.v. mamma n.¹ records a few scattered examples of the pronunciation /ˈmɔmə/ in the sense ‘mother’, there is no evidence of the form mauma used in this sense.

U.S. colloquial and U.S. regional (chiefly southern).

= mammy n. 3.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > behaviour > good behaviour > courtesy > courteous forms of address or title > [noun] > for woman > for old woman > black

mauma1835

1835 W. G. Simms Partisan 141 You have told me nothing of old mauma.

1838 C. Gilman Recoll. Southern Matron xv. 101 Who does not remember his youthful Christmas; the reiterated charge to his maumer to awaken him first?

1890 Harper's Mag. July 232/1 Respectable colored ‘maumas’, ample of girth, in spotted white aprons.

1895 Cent. Mag. May 155/2 Only a few, a very few, of the faithful old ‘maumers’ and loyal house- and body-servants remain.

1950 Publ. Amer. Dial. Soc. xiv. 46 Mauma,..name by which elderly Negro women were called by the children of the family with which they were connected.

1985 B. Neal Southern Cooking (1989) x. 151 Black women known as ‘maumas’ sold the sweets wrapped in paper on the streets of Charleston.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	mauma
释义	mauman. Brit. /ˈmɔːmə/, U.S. /ˈmɔmə/, /ˈmɑmə/ Forms: 1800s– mauma, 1800s– maumer, 1900s– maumuh. Origin: Probably a variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymon: mama n.¹ Etymology: Probably a variant of mama n.¹ (see discussion at that entry). Compare maum n.For occasional forms maumey , maumie see mammy n. Although Dict. Amer. Regional Eng. s.v. mamma n.¹ records a few scattered examples of the pronunciation /ˈmɔmə/ in the sense ‘mother’, there is no evidence of the form mauma used in this sense. U.S. colloquial and U.S. regional (chiefly southern). = mammy n. 3. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > good behaviour > courtesy > courteous forms of address or title > [noun] > for woman > for old woman > black mauma1835 1835 W. G. Simms Partisan 141 You have told me nothing of old mauma. 1838 C. Gilman Recoll. Southern Matron xv. 101 Who does not remember his youthful Christmas; the reiterated charge to his maumer to awaken him first? 1890 Harper's Mag. July 232/1 Respectable colored ‘maumas’, ample of girth, in spotted white aprons. 1895 Cent. Mag. May 155/2 Only a few, a very few, of the faithful old ‘maumers’ and loyal house- and body-servants remain. 1950 Publ. Amer. Dial. Soc. xiv. 46 Mauma,..name by which elderly Negro women were called by the children of the family with which they were connected. 1985 B. Neal Southern Cooking (1989) x. 151 Black women known as ‘maumas’ sold the sweets wrapped in paper on the streets of Charleston. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1835
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