18 Verbs to Use for the Word ma

I'll run and ask 'ma directly if she can spare me, and if she will, I won't even unpack my valise, but shall be all ready to start in the morning.

My pa belonged to the Dorgens' and he married my ma.

The old mother hen would say 'Chick-a-ma, chick-a-ma, craney crow, Went to the well to wash my toe; When I come back my chicken was gone, What time is it, old witch?' One chicken was s'posed to get out and then the hawk would try to ketch him.

"Ted Sawyer 'as been telling everybody that I came up the companion-way like a fog-horn that 'ad lost its ma; I wonder how he'd 'ave come up if he'd 'ad the evening I had 'ad?

I called her ma.

"Tell 'ma' what you want," his grandmother put in.

In every word there are as many syllables as there are distinct sounds, or separate impulses of the voice; as, gram-ma-ri-an.

But they can have the last bill in the roll if they'll leave me your ma, and my appetite, and that tired feeling at night.

This would have been done, quite likely, for the first five years of the lives of the dear little things, because the children would naturally require a mother's care; and afterwards, because the precocious darlings, at the mature age of seven, would declare, in open court, that they really loved 'ma' more than they did 'pa'!

She was Ella Keith, dats zackly what her named when us married and she named fer Miss Fannie's ma.

The light from his lantern revealed bow-ma and her son, clinging to each other and weeping piteously.

IT'S AS MUCH AS WE CAN DO TO STAND MA!"

When I was little, Mr. Strauter whipped my ma.

Here were Glen Fruin and Bannochar, Ross Dhu and the pass of Beal-ma-na.

Pa was born on Blount's plantation and Blount bought my ma because they brought her from Kentucky for sale.

"All de Niggers on de place was born in de fam'ly an' was kin, 'cept my ma.

So we proceeded to use it to make people think there was a baby in the house, and when we made it cry "Mam-ma," and heard doors opening and people coming, we were quite happy.

I do hope this young lady will find her ma and that, when found, she will prove to be your daughter!"

18 Verbs to Use for the Word  ma