mom

• mam
• Mom
• mum, Mum (Australian, British, Irish)

Abbreviation of momma

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /mɒm/
• (US) enPR: mŏm, IPA^(key): /mɑm/
• (Canada) IPA^(key): /mɒm/, /mʌm/[1]

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• Rhymes: -ɒm

mom (plural moms)

1. (Canada, South Africa, US, West Midlands, colloquial, informal) Mother.
   1. (by extension) used as a term of address for one's wife
      • 2017, Allstate: All Alone‎:

        (spoken by the father) I don't share it with mom! Right, mom?

2. (informal) An adult female owner of a pet.

• Mom can be capitalized when used as a proper noun, but not when used as a common noun (e.g. with a possessive):

  I think Mom likes my new car.

  I think my mom will like you.

• Mother’s Day
• Appendix:American Dialect Society words of the year

mom (third-person singular simple present moms, present participle momming, simple past and past participle mommed)

1. (transitive, Canada, US, informal) To care for in a motherly way.
   • Marie Johnston, Finish Line

     The shock of my news had worn off, and now she'd want to know where I was, how I was doing, and she'd sniff out that I was with someone. “I just wanted to check in on you.” That was Mom. Totally unashamed about momming me.

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mom f or m or n (plural mommen, diminutive mommetje n)

1. mask
2. a specific kind of beer

• mombakkes
• mommer
• vermommen

mom

1. water

• Andrew Eatough, Central Hill Nisenan Texts with Grammatical Sketch

Borrowed from Mandarin 帽 (mào, “hat”).[1]

• IPA^(key): /mɒ˩̰/

mom

1. used in kaus mom (“hat, cap, helmet”)

• Heimbach, Ernest E. (1979) White Hmong — English Dictionary‎, SEAP Publications, →ISBN, page 130.