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mamma

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Mother; -- word of tenderness and familiarity.

A glandular organ for secreting milk, characteristic of all mammals, but usually rudimentary in the male; a mammary gland; a breast; under; bag.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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You really want to know what being an X-Man feels like? Just be a smart bookish boy of color in a contemporary U. S. ghetto. Mamma mia! Like having bat wings or a pair of tentacles growing out of your chest. Junot Diaz

Of course it was Mamma who both stopped my career and crystallized my determination to resume it. Loretta Young

I'm doing a play, a musical. The musical follows the Mamma Mia concept. It's my first LA theater project. Tatyana Ali

Maybe any action becomes cowardly once you stop to reason about it. Conscience doth make cowards of us all, eh mamma mia? Mary McCarthy

I'll tell you how it happened. The phone rang. Paul, my agent, goes, 'Would you like to play Meryl Streep's?' I said, 'Yeeees! I'll do it, whatever it is.' He said, 'It's Mamma Mia!.' I said, 'Oh no, which character? The fat friend? Julie Walters

Who the daughter would win, with mamma must begin. German Proverb

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