Word Finder - mamma

definition

The milk-secreting organ of female humans and other mammals which includes the mammary gland and the nipple or teat; a breast; an udder. (plural: mammae)

definition

An accessory cloud like a mammary in appearance, which can form on the underside of most cloud genera

Mamma told me to ask you to join the dancers.

Mamma, are you cross?

Much as Mamma pressed her, she refused, and I know she won't change once she has said...

How does big Mamma, one of the world's biggest catfish, sound?

You were not by, when I told mamma and the others all about it.

Don't forget, mamma; you are to bring back Margaret.

Even you don't know half how good mamma is; in other things too, which I must not mention.

Then I will drag it out of the bushes and call mamma to come and see it.

If I hand her a flower, and say, "Give it to mamma," she takes it to her mother.

My mamma made my pretty new dress.

True, single words do suggest and express ideas; the child may say simply "mamma" when he means "Where is mamma?" but he learns the expression of the ideas that relate to mamma--he learns language--by hearing complete sentences.

The only words she had learned to pronounce with any degree of distinctness previous to March, 1890, were PAPA, MAMMA, BABY, SISTER.

You were meaning to go out, weren't you, Mamma?

But I'll just tell Mamma how you are behaving with Boris.

Yes, these verses Nicholas wrote himself and I copied some others, and she found them on my table and said she'd show them to Mamma, and that I was ungrateful, and that Mamma would never allow him to marry me, but that he'll marry Julie.

And all will come right and she won't say anything to Mamma.

But for God's sake, be careful, you know how it may affect your mamma.

Let us go to Mamma.

Such a little while ago I came to this table with the thought of winning a hundred rubles to buy that casket for Mamma's name day and then going home.

Made, made me an offer, Mamma!

No, Mamma, but I'm so sorry for him.

But on the contrary, my papa and mamma are now provided for--I have arranged that rent for them in the Baltic Provinces--and I can live in Petersburg on my pay, and with her fortune and my good management we can get along nicely.

Mamma, can we have a talk?

No, Mamma, don't speak to him!

But, Mamma, is he very much in love?

Even Mamma does not understand.

Mamma, are you asleep?

Mamma, one need not be ashamed of his being a widower?

Mamma, it is awful, it is unbearable!

Mamma said you mustn't, said Nicholas to Natasha.

I wonder how Mamma could speak so to me.

Don't look at me, Mamma!

Mamma, I want him.

Why should I be wasted like this, Mamma?

Mamma, tell us what happened to you in the barn.

Mamma said she was angling for you.

I nearly stormed at Mamma.

Listen, Mamma darling, said Natasha.

Well, Papa, I tell you definitely, and Mamma too, it's as you please, but I say definitely that you must let me enter the army, because I can't... that's all....

Oh, Mamma, how is it you don't understand that the Holy Father, who has the right to grant dispensations...

Why does Mamma object?

From the anteroom Berg ran with smooth though impatient steps into the drawing room, where he embraced the count, kissed the hands of Natasha and Sonya, and hastened to inquire after "Mamma's" health.

Yes, Mamma, I tell you sincerely that these are hard and sad times for every Russian.

No, Mamma darling, it's not the thing.

Mamma, what does it matter what we take away?

You see, Aunt, Mamma has long wanted me to marry an heiress, but the very idea of marrying for money is repugnant to me.

She is so kind and Mamma is so fond of her!

But I don't in the least want to, Mamma.

Five minutes later little black-eyed three-year-old Natasha, her father's pet, having learned from her brother that Papa was asleep and Mamma was in the sitting room, ran to her father unobserved by her mother.

How pleased the children will be and Mamma too!