moms
Pluralmoms
- 1Plural of mom.
The soccer moms cheered loudly from the sidelines all afternoon.
Two moms chatted while their kids played at the park.
Note
A regular -s plural that follows mom into each of its uses. It can mean mothers in general, wives addressed fondly, or the informal pet-owner sense. Its spelling is shared with the affectionate singular, which looks plural but names one mother. The verb tells them apart: the moms are here counts several, while my moms is here means just one.
- 2An affectionate term for one's mother, used in African-American Vernacular English.
My moms still calls me every night just to check in.
He moved back home to help take care of his moms.
Note
The -s here is not a plural but a fond suffix, the kind that turns a word into a pet name. It behaves like a name. It can stand bare, as in Ghostface Killah's All That I Got Is You (1996), where moms tenderly cleans his face. It can also follow my, as in Noire's Thug-A-Licious (2006): "My moms, Noojie." Either way, the pronoun that goes with it is her.
moms is a form of mom
mom, noun: A person's mother, as an informal and affectionate word in everyday North American speech. Full entry
- Forms
- mommoms plural
- Spelling
- mom → moms: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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Origins
Formed from 'mom' plus the plural suffix '-s'.
Formed from 'mom' plus the hypocoristic (pet-name) suffix '-s'.