MaMa /mɑː/, ma noun [countable] informalWord Origin
WORD ORIGINMa
Origin:
1800-1900mama
Examples
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
Hey Ma, can I go out with Billy?
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
But of course there were Avon and Ma and Pa and Aggie.
Don't touch dumb hallucinogens like A. Listen to your Ma and Pa, and forget the headster time ever happened.
Here comes the light of the world ... Ma?
I spoke to Ma, who seemed calm.
I telephoned your Ma yesterday, to hear that things were a bit depressing at the school and in the country generally.
Collocations
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE►old
· I'd seen a 100 franc note on the mantelpiece at old Ma Scamp's place.· I recognized him from the wedding photograph old Ma Scamp had flashed in front of me.
1mother: What’s for dinner, Ma?2 old-fashioned used to mean ‘Mrs’ in some country areas of the US: old Ma Harris