different between dommy vs mommy

English

Alternative forms

• domie

Etymology

Abbreviation of Latin domus (“home”) (so Green 1998); or of English domicile +? -y.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?d?mi/

Noun

dommy (plural dommies)

1. (US, black slang, obsolete) Someone's house, home.
   • 1946, Mezz Mezzrow & Bernard Wolfe, Really the Blues, Payback Press 1999, p. 50:

     Harry Shapiro was crazy about musicians so we headed straight for his dommy.

English

Etymology

From mom +? -y.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?mi

Noun

mommy (plural mommies)

1. (US, Canada, usually childish) Mother.

Synonyms

• ma, mama, mamma, mom (US, Canada), momma (US), mum (British), mummy (British)

Descendants

• ? Hebrew: ??????? (mámi)

Translations

Verb

mommy (third-person singular simple present mommies, present participle mommying, simple past and past participle mommied)

1. (US, Canada, rare, informal) To treat someone like a mother would; to mother someone.

Adjective

mommy (comparative mommier, superlative mommiest)

1. (US, Canada, rare, informal, chiefly in the superlative) Characteristic of a mother; motherly.

   She is the mommiest of mommies.

   • 2013, Erin MacPherson, The Christian Mama's Guide to Having a Baby

     I am smack-dab in the middle of the mommiest years of my life. There are toys strewn across my once-pristine floors, goldfish crackers in my couch cushions, and empty juice boxes in my car.