Momager vs Madam - What's the difference?
momager | madam |
A manager who is also one's mother.
*2010 , Andrea O'Reilly, Encyclopedia of Motherhood :
*2012 , Sarah Wylie, All These Lives , page 184:
The mistress of a household.
(colloquial) A conceited or quarrelsome girl.
(slang) A woman who runs a brothel.
As nouns the difference between momager and madam
is that momager is a manager who is also one's mother while madam is french governess.momager
English
Noun
(en noun)- A growing category of “bad” mother is the so-called “momager ,” the woman who interferes with her famous children's affairs, exploits them, and contributes to their tarnished reputations—[...]
- The most fitting occupation for my mother is no longer a stage actress or momager or anything like that; she would make—she is—a fantastic nurse.
madam
English
Noun
(wikipedia madam) (en-noun)- ''Mrs Grey wondered if the outfit she was trying on made her look fat. The sales assistant just said, “It suits you, madam ”.
- ''Later, Mrs Grey was sitting in her favourite tea shop. “Would madam like the usual cream cakes and patisserie with her tea?” the waitress asked.
- ''Selina kept pushing and shoving during musical chairs. The nursery school teacher said she was a bad-tempered little madam .
- After she grew too old to work as a prostitute, she became a madam .