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mumoir

mumoir is the alternative form of momoir.

Meaning of momoir

Noun

momoir (plural momoirs)

  1. (Canada, US, informal) A memoir written by or about a mother.
    • So-called momoirs, first-person accounts exploding some of the sentimentality about motherhood, include Andrea J. Buchanan's "Mother Shock" and Muffy Mead-Ferro's "Confessions of a Slacker Mom."2006 December 17, Lizzie Skurnick, “Chick Lit, the Sequel: Yummy Mummy”, in The New York Times

Forms of mumoir

pluralmumoirs

Origin of mumoir

Blend of mum + memoir.

Questions about mumoir

What is mumoir the alternative form of?
Mumoir is the alternative form of momoir.

Words near mumoir in the dictionary

  1. mummyjis
  2. mummykins
  3. mummylike
  4. mummyology
  5. mumness
  6. mumoir
  7. mumoirs
  8. mump
  9. mumped
  10. mumper
  11. mumpers

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Adapted from Wiktionary: mumoir (page history and authors); momoir (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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