You can make 36 anagrams from letters in mamas (aamms).
1545-55; nursery word, with parallels in other European languages, probably in part inherited or borrowed, in part newly formed; compare Latin mamma, Greek mámmē breast, mama (see Examples for mamas
mama, I understand your many sleepless nights / When you sit and think about father / Or how you tried to be the perfect wife.
The point of the ritual is to announce to the ancestors (through “mama,”) our intentions, and earn their consent to continue.
For the audience, it was just a young girl calling for her mama, but for Walter, it was perfect.
That's just what mama and I have been feeling so much; they don't appreciate you.
mama, it was because of those things that came out about Alice Adams.
It's funny; but we don't often make people think what we want 'em to, mama.
Don't you think you really ought to know more about him, mama?
And if both women are more amoral and avaricious than Ma Joad and mama Younger, well, so are we.
If only Tupac was alive to see one of our finest actresses shakin’ what her mama gave her to “Hit ‘Em Up.”
"mama, I heard you in papa's room," Alice said, not dropping the note of complaint.