mommy

From mom +‎ -y.

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• Rhymes: -ɒmi

mommy (plural mommies)

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

• ma, mama, mamma, mom (US, Canada), momma (US), mum (British), mummy (British)

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.

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.