单词 | mommy |
释义 | mommyn. colloquial (chiefly North American). 1. One's mother; a mother. Cf. mom n., momma n.Mommy occurs most commonly in children's language. It is chiefly used as a form of address, or preceded by a possessive (as ‘my mommy’); it is also used without possessive (e.g., in quot. 1991) in the manner of a proper name. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > parent > mother > [noun] mothereOE dame?c1225 merea1275 childbearera1382 genitricea1500 mammy1523 dama1547 mama1555 genetrix1561 mam1570 mum?1595 old lady1599 authoressc1603 mam1608 genitress1610 old woman1668 old girl1745 mummy1768 momma1810 madre1815 maw1826 ma1829 marm1835 mater1843 mom1846 mommy1846 maternal1867 motherkins1870 muvver1871 mumsy1876 mamacita1887 mutti1905 birth mother1906 duchess1909 amma1913 momsey1914 mums1915 moms1925 mata1945 baby-mother1966 mama1982 old dear1985 baby-mama1986 1846 Spirit of Times 14 Nov. 447 Come, toe the chalk, my rooster boy, And listen to yer mommy. 1858 Pennsylvania Dutchman 1 Oct. 2 All my soul is in delight When mommy fixes crout just right. 1902 Dial. Notes 2 239 Mommy,..used by children. Sometimes abbreviated to mom..by grown children, but they generally use ma. 1953 N. Gordimer Soft Voice of Serpent xv. 159 Mommy, he use to say, I want a ‘tickle’! 1974 R. Hawkey & R. Bingham Wild Card vi. 59 Mommy'll bring you a glass of water. 1991 J. Smiley Thousand Acres xxiii. 183 I could hear Caroline start to cry and then shush up. Mommy's head turned toward the sound, then back. 1997 J. Seabrook Deeper vi. 205 People tell her what a nice mommy she is. 2. U.S. regional. The long-tailed duck, Clangula hyemalis. ΚΠ 1888 G. Trumbull Names & Portraits Birds 88 Old Squaw... In New Jersey..at Cape May City, Mommy. 1923 U.S. Dept. Agric. Circular No. 13. 24 Old-squaw... Vernacular Names... Mommy. Compounds mommy blogger n. a female blogger who writes chiefly or exclusively about parenting issues; also used more widely to refer to any mother who writes a blog.Sometimes used with disparaging or depreciative connotations.See quot. 2004 for the slightly earlier mom blogger. ΚΠ 2004 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 28 Mar. (NJ section) 2 Like most bloggers, Ms. Finn-Arnold has developed her online community by listing other mom bloggers on her ‘blogroll’, a feature that allows readers to link easily to online pals.] 2005 From Volunteer at Astrodome Today in alt.society.boomers (Usenet newsgroup) 8 Sept. Badger is a mommy-blogger who has volunteered to travel to Houston to help the evacuees. 2006 N.Y. Times Bk. Rev. 16 Apr. 16/1 A certain clique of mothers-in-the-know (media feminists, mommy bloggers, Urban Baby posters). 2014 B. D. Lee & L. M. Webb in A. R. Martinez & L. J. Miller Gender in Transitional Era iv. 44 As early as 2006, some mommy bloggers raised objections to the label, describing the term as demeaning and reductionist..; other bloggers embraced the term as affectionate and accurate. mommy wars n. disputes between mothers over child-rearing methods, especially those between working mothers and those who stay at home.Also occasionally in singular, as mommy war, with the same sense. ΚΠ 1989 Texas Monthly July 80/1 On one side of the front lines of the Mommy War are women who work... On the other side are women who view their home and children as their jobs. 1989 Child Sept. 139 (heading) The Mommy Wars. Why working mothers and nonworking mothers don't see eye to eye. 1994 Daily Record (Morristown, New Jersey) 6 May 10/1 If there has been a truce in the..mommy wars it's been written with this new language. Women today describe themselves..as working ‘outside the home’ and/or working ‘inside the home.’ 2009 Austin (Texas) American-Statesman (Nexis) 12 July h1 The diversity of backgrounds and home situations of these bloggers has at times led to online ‘mommy wars’ over issues like breastfeeding. 2016 L. R. Ross Interrogating Motherhood ii. 29 While the so called Mommy Wars may have helped to sell newspapers, issues..such as lack of maternity benefits for mothers, child care, and equal pay do not. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1846 |
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