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DEFINITION: n. The emotional connection between a mother and her child, which continues on through life despite all the protestations. v. To be loved by your mother and even though you complain about it a lot.
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Momdage
Created by: ShittyZen
Pronunciation: momdage
Sentence: Lacking competition from a needy father, her deadbeat kids kept her in eternal momdage.
Etymology: Mom + bondage (As in "serfdom," not the sexual practice, you pervs!)
Amomability
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: A Mom A bilitee
Sentence: For eighty years she showed great agility at her favourite calling, her kids never doubted her amomability!
Etymology: A Mom (a female parent) & Ability (the quality of being able to perform; a quality that permits or facilitates achievement or accomplishment;possession of the qualities (especially mental qualities) required to do something or get something done)
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COMMENTS:
nice - Jabberwocky, 2009-05-08: 13:13:00
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Maternality
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: mat urn al it ee
Sentence: She always told her daughter, "You'll always be my baby, even when you're eighty!" It was her chant of maternality. Now her daughter is eighty and she at 100 still has her baby!
Etymology: Maternal (characteristic of a mother) & Eternity (time without end)
Mamamiasma
Created by: readerwriter
Pronunciation: mah-mah-mee-az-mah
Sentence: Prince Hammie Boy was so obsessed with and conflicted by his mother's marriage to his father's brother, he created a mamamiasma in the castle and left quite a few dead, giving truth to the expression "something is rotten in Denmark." Those involved in the clean-up soon suffered from mamamiasthma.
Etymology: Blending Mama Mia (title of musical/Italian for "my mama") + miasma (putrid air)
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COMMENTS:
Oooops, forgot about Mother's Day! I love my Mommy... - readerwriter, 2009-05-08: 09:33:00
terrific blend - Jabberwocky, 2009-05-08: 13:16:00
Like your use of Hamlet's tragic error! Excellent words - mamamiasma and mamamiasthma! - splendiction, 2009-05-08: 23:12:00
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Maternality
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: muh-tern-AL-ity
Sentence: The bond between mothers and offspring is maternality, maternal love and instincts that last throughout the lifetime.
Etymology: Blend of maternal and eternity
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COMMENTS:
Maternally yours! - Nosila, 2009-05-08: 10:34:00
so sweet - Jabberwocky, 2009-05-08: 13:17:00
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Motherpetual
Created by: mrskellyscl
Pronunciation: moth-er-pet-tu-al
Sentence: It was early on Mother's Day that I first felt the quickening of movement that signaled the beginning of my motherpetual vigil. I realized that from that moment on every breath I took would be a continual prayer for the happiness of another, that every movement would be for and toward the beloved, every gaze would be like the anxious watch of a sentinal for his king, and that no force in heaven and on earth could stop it nor would death ever end it.
Etymology: mother + perpetual: enduring forever
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COMMENTS:
Mother of a Pearl! - Nosila, 2009-05-08: 23:20:00
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Parentrapment
Created by: emdeejay
Pronunciation: pair entrapment
Sentence: Bob once had a case of parentrapment: "Come mothers and fathers throughout the land. And don't criticize what you can't understand. Your sons and your daughters are beyond your command. Your old road is rapidly agin'." ... Youth is charming, but at times a little selfish and impatient. This is more how I feel: "Love while ya can 'cos too soon they'll be gone, for the times they are a changin'"
Etymology: Parent: mum or dad. Entrapment: a compromising situation imposed upon you. Bob Dylan: You rock, man. Mum: I love you
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COMMENTS:
nice Dylan reference - Jabberwocky, 2009-05-08: 13:19:00
Fabulous. Love the sentence. - dochanne, 2009-05-08: 19:45:00
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Magape
Created by: UnluckyCharm511
Pronunciation: Ma-gaip
Sentence: The mother loved her only so much, it was the culmination of magape.
Etymology: From Agape (unconditional love) and Mother.
Comments:
We're celebrating Mothers Day with today's definition, and with a few words from the Bob Dylan song Lord Protect My Child:
Just to see him at play makes me smile
No matter what happens to me
No matter what my destiny
Lord, protect my child
Happy Mother's Day ~ James
Oh great, now I get to spend all day with mascara running down my face. I almost couldn't write anything. The lyrics to the song are so beautiful and all at once bathed me in memories of my mother, memories of the birth of my daughter and of the day I was blessed to be there for the birth of her son. Thank you, James.
It sounds like Bob has touched a chord. Thanks! ~ James