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`` If I was your mama, I'd wop your tail off ''.
* Mamá, mama, ma, and mami in Spanish
* Baby mama, the popular street term for the mother of one's illegitimate child
Dupree's songs included not only gloomy topics, such as " TB Blues " and " Angola Blues " ( about Angola Prison, the infamous Louisiana prison farm ), but also cheerful subjects like the " Dupree Shake Dance ": " Come on, mama, on your hands and knees, do that shake dance as you please ".
: Every time I see you mama, you ’ re always on the street
: Every time I see you mama, you ’ re always on the street
: Every time I need you mama, lord I always find you ’ re gone
: Every time I need you mama, lord I always find you ’ re gone
: Listen here sweet mama, I ’ m gonna put your air brakes on
In his " Winin ' Boy Blues " in the late 1930s, Jelly Roll Morton sang, " Mama, mama, look at sis, she's out on the levee doing the double twist.
Before his death the two enjoyed poking fun at each other such as Country Dick saying on stage that he'd been " fucking Mojo's Mama " which led to Nixon to retort: " Country Dick can keep on fucking my mama, as long as he keeps on sucking my dick ".
He usually approaches people with a laid-back rap and a rhyme (" my name is Len-nay, if i ain't got it, there ain't an-nay ", " hey there mama, my name is Len-nay, if you buy from me I can save you a pen-nay " or " don't go to J. C. Pen-nay, just come and see Sweet Len-nay ").
* Big mama, a colloquial name for Internet censors on web bulletin boards in the People's Republic of China
Often there are many diminutive forms for one word: мама ( mama, mom ) becomes мамочка ( mamochka, affectionate sense ), мамуля ( mamulia, affectionate and playful sense ), маменька ( mamen ' ka, affectionate and old-fashioned ), маманя ( mamania, affectionate but disdainful ),-all of them have different hues of meaning, which are hard to understand for a foreigner, but are very perceptible for a native speaker.
:: When you get in Denver, pretty mama, look around for me.
The genial Foley closed each show from the Jewell Theatre in downtown Springfield with a " song of inspiration " or a recitation from his Keepsake Album ; and his sign-off was " Goodnight mama, goodnight papa ," before walking into the audience to shake hands as the credits rolled.
Some baby talk words and phrases, such as mama, pee-pee, potty, yucky, no-no and tummy are sometimes used after infancy, just as colloquial or informal terms.
Most standard baby talk words consist of a single syllable duplicated, such as mama, dada, poo-poo, pee-pee, baba, boo-boo, bot-bot, num-num, dum-dum and wee-wee.
These, such as mama, dada, baba, wawa, nana, are often imitations of a baby's first utterances which take the shape of a word.
Words with similar sounds from stressed syllables, such as mama, dada and baba.
I ’ m a gear-swappin ’ mama, and I don ’ t know the meaning of fear.
This is not only an uncommon use for goofer dust ; in fact, it seems to be an error on the screenwriters ' parts, as most popular references to goofer dust in African American blues music refer to its killing powers, e. g. " Getting sick and tired of the way you do ; good, kind mama, gonna poison you ; sprinkle goofer dust all around your bed — wake up in the morning, find your own self dead.
Most Japanese children today call their mother mama, but the term does not persist into adulthood.
Throughout the song, the woman, addressed as " mama ," is alternately pleaded with ( to go with the speaker " up the country ") and threatened (" When I leave this time, pretty mama, I'm going away to stay ").
Thus, there is no need to ascribe the similarities to common ancestry of! Kung ba, Aramaic abba, Mandarin Chinese bàba, Persian baba, and French papa ( all " father "); or Navajo amá, Mandarin Chinese māma, Swahili mama, Quechua mama, and English " mama " ( all " mother ").

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