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   mam

   /mam/

   noun

   • 1. one's mother: informal, dialect British "my mam would have had a fit if I'd gone out dressed like that"
   • 2. a term of respectful or polite address used for any woman: informal US "‘You all ride them horses down here?’ ‘Yes, mam.’"

   Word Origin mid 16th century (in mam (sense 1)): perhaps imitative of a child's first syllables (see mama); mam (sense 2) is a variant of ma'am.

   Scrabble Points: 7

   • M

     3

   • A

     1

   • M

     3

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