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Dam vs Mam - What's the difference?

dam | mam |

As nouns the difference between dam and mam

is that dam is a structure placed across a flowing body of water to stop the flow while mam is diminutive of mother.

As a verb dam

is to block the flow of water.

As a proper noun Mam is

a Mayan language spoken in the Mexican state of Chiapas and the Guatemalan departments of Quetzaltenango, Huehuetenango, San Marcos, and Retalhuleu.

dam

Translingual

Symbol

(head)
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    mam

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (informal, and, colloquial) Diminutive of mother.

    • Usage notes

    Used in place of mum or ma in Northumbrian dialects such as Geordie, as well as throughout Ireland and Liverpool.

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