<span class="searchmatch">memaw</span> (plural <span class="searchmatch">memaws</span>) Alternative form of meemaw. <span class="searchmatch">memaw</span> (third-person singular simple present <span class="searchmatch">memaws</span>, present participle memawing, simple past and past...
Glaswegian humour implying disbelief with a hint of ridicule). meemaw, <span class="searchmatch">memaw</span> papaw mawmaw Cognate with Tagalog mamaw (“monster; talented; intelligent”)...
Ravenel, Padgett Powell, New Stories from the South, page viii: He may think <span class="searchmatch">Memaw's</span> consistent failure to strike him with the broom is a function of her indextrous...
affectionate alteration of mama or reduplication of maw (“mother”). meema, <span class="searchmatch">memaw</span> meemaw (plural meemaws) (US, dialect, Southern US) Synonym of mamaw (“grandmother”)...