mommy
Americannoun
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mommies
plural
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of mommy
First recorded in 1900–05, momm(a) + -y 2. Cf. mammy, mummy 2
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Even real life has given us a scary mommy for the ages: Donna Arthur.
From Salon ● Oct. 30, 2026
On Instagram, mommy influencers made smug posts about being proven right by the hearing.
From Slate ● Aug. 3, 2026
“I’m crushed and wish mommy could’ve took all of the pain and sickness for you,” she later wrote on Facebook.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026
You mention in this special about being in your “tia era,” but I’m thinking you’re more in your mommy era, yet your material isn’t overly mommy.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 6, 2026
And you are going to be very important to this baby, because you’re not the mommy or the daddy.
From "Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie" by Jordan Sonnenblick
“Crystal Lake” and “Carrie” have the unenviable task of taking scary mommies we already know and helping us understand their motivations in new contexts.
From Salon ● Oct. 30, 2026
“Videos will be shown to the students including one where it says, ‘some kids have 2 mommies, some have 2 daddies.’
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 2, 2023
Those ever-present images of magical momming polluted parenting culture, giving the rest of us normie mommies a stomach ache.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 1, 2023
This week, she asked, “Where did the first baby come from before there were mommies and daddies?”
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 23, 2022
They were protected by their mommies, their nannies, their maids.
From "The Dead and the Gone" by Susan Beth Pfeffer
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