mamaing

Verb

mama (third-person singular simple present mamas, present participle mamaing, simple past and past participle mamaed)

1. (informal, transitive, uncommon) Synonym of mother (“to treat (someone) as a mother would be expected to treat her child; to nurture”).
   • What shall be the effeminating effect upon the rising generation if the brave men of today are to be mammaed by a crew of timid Supervisors?1905 May 7, “The Lancer”, in Los Angeles Sunday Times, volume 47, number 155, Los Angeles, Calif.: The Times-Mirror Company, →OCLC, part II, page 5, column 2

   Synonyms:

   mother

2. (informal, obsolete, rare, transitive, uncommon) To call (someone) "mama" (noun sense).
   • Priſc[illa] vvill Mamma-up Mrs. Sinclair, and vvill undertake to court her guardian to let her paſs a delightful vveek vvith her.1749 June 26 (Gregorian calendar), [Samuel Richardson], “Letter LXIV. Miss Clarissa Harlowe, to Miss Howe.”, in Clarissa. Or, The History of a Young Lady: […], 2nd edition, volume III, London: […]...
3. (informal, intransitive, uncommon) To call out "mama".
   • [W]hen the next Sunday two and the third Sunday four babies cooed and mammaed and howled in chorus it was more than he could stand.1905 December 6, “Humor: Babies and the parson: How his scheme for keeping them quiet was spoiled”, in The Evening Examiner, volume XXXIX, number 132, Peterborough, Ont.: [The Peterborough Examiner]...

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