mommy

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈmɒmi/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈmɑmi/

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• Rhymes: -ɒmi
• Hyphenation: mom‧my

From mom +‎ -y (diminutive suffix).

mommy (plural mommies)

1. (US, Canada, usually childish) Mother.

   Synonyms: ma, mama, mamma, (US & Canada) mom, (US) momma, (British) mum, (British) mummy

   • 2012, Willow Yamahchi, Bad Mommy, Insomniac Press, →ISBN, page 91:

     The only bad-karma-reducing sposie on the market is a new line of biodegradable (meaning here "useless") sposie that won't last through the lightest of baby pees and will force you to change baby approximately once every thirty seconds, thereby completely undoing any so-called karma reduction. Only bad mommies use sposies.

   • 2015, Paul Easter, Consciousness Before Conscience:

     They will never part even though in mommy's heart she wishes daddy would leave forever. One grief-some January 25 mommy rested never to return for her and daddy went on a walk. “Where is mommy”, said baby but daddy couldn't talk.

2. (vulgar) A sexually attractive mother.

   Synonym: MILF

3. (slang, by extension) Any sexually attractive woman.

• → Hebrew: מָאמִי (mámi)

mommy (third-person singular simple present mommies, present participle mommying, simple past and past participle mommied)

1. (US, Canada, rare, informal) To treat someone like a mother would; to mother someone.

From mom +‎ -y (adjectival suffix).

mommy (comparative mommier, superlative mommiest)

1. (US, Canada, rare, informal, chiefly in the superlative) Characteristic of a mother; motherly.

   She is the mommiest of mommies.

   • 2013, Erin MacPherson, The Christian Mama's Guide to Having a Baby:

     I am smack-dab in the middle of the mommiest years of my life. There are toys strewn across my once-pristine floors, goldfish crackers in my couch cushions, and empty juice boxes in my car.