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Mamma vs Bamma - What's the difference?

mamma | bamma |

As nouns the difference between mamma and bamma

is that mamma is mommy, mum, mummy while bamma is an unstylish rural person; a hick.

mamma

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) (m).

Noun

(en-noun)
  • (anatomy) The milk-secreting organ of female humans and other mammals which includes the mammary gland and the nipple or teat; a breast; an udder.
  • (meteorology) an accessory cloud like a mammary in appearance, which can form on the underside of most cloud genera
    • Derived terms
    * mammal * mammalgia * mammaplasty * mammary * mammate * mammatroph * mammectomy * mammiform * mammilla * mammiplasia * mammitis * mammoplasia * mammogen * mammogenesis * mammogram * mammography * mammose * mammosomatotrope * mammosomatotroph * mammotomy * mammotroph * mammotropic * mammotrophic * mammotropin

    Etymology 2

    Alternative spelling of mama'' or ''momma .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • : mother .
  • * 1856 , (Gustave Flaubert), (Madame Bovary), Part III Chapter XI, translated by Eleanor Marx-Aveling
    • The next day Charles had the child brought back. She asked for her mamma . They told her she was away; that she would bring her back some playthings.
    English reduplications ----

    bamma

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An unstylish rural person; a hick.
  • * 2008 , "A Blessing in Disguise", A Real Black Woman is the Closest Thing to God (page 44)
    • A lot of dudes that I knew at that time use to think that guys from Maryland was bammas but I didn't sleep on nobody because even a bamma can pull a trigger. I always knew that even if a guy was from cotton ball land, he could still do damage.
  • * 2011 , Stan Long, Black Bird Medley: The Transformation of a Gangster (page 16)
    • Black didn't like them much. He said to me one day, “Stan, why do you hang around them bammas ?” Bamma meant “country” or “slow” or something of that nature.
  • * 2012 , Larry Moon Jr, Drama City (page 151)
    • “Man, there's a bamma that just came home from jail trying to intimidate and extort my youngins.”