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memaw

memaw is the alternative form of meemaw.

Meaning of meemaw

Noun

meemaw (plural meemaws)

  1. (Southern US, US, dialectal) Synonym of mamaw (“grandmother”).
    • “Let's celebrate with drinks at Tipsy River.” “Uh, I don't want to go to Tipsy River. I don't want to bother my meemaw while she's working.” “Let's not push it. He's embarrassed of his country-ass grandma.” “Don't be embarrassed of your meemaw, Wayne. She's fun.”2021 April 18, Christy Stratton & Erin Wagoner, “Hoot 'N Haw” (3:29 from the start), in Bless the Harts, season 2, episode 18, spoken by Wayne Edwards (Ike Barinholtz)
    Synonyms:
    mamaw

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Forms of memaw

Noun
pluralmemaws
Verb
third-person singular presentmemaws
present participlememawing
past participlememawed
pastmemawed

Questions about memaw

What is memaw the alternative form of?
Memaw is the alternative form of meemaw.

Words near memaw in the dictionary

  1. Memagong
  2. Memana
  3. memantine
  4. memapsin
  5. memapsins
  6. memaw
  7. memawed
  8. memawing
  9. memaws
  10. memba
  11. membar

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Adapted from Wiktionary: memaw (page history and authors); meemaw (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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