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mammaw

n. (alternative form of mamaw English)

Usage examples of "mammaw".

My high chair faced the window, and Mammaw tacked playing cards up on the wooden window frame at mealtimes so that I could learn to count.

Papaw’s bronchiectasis continued to advance and Mammaw had had a stroke.

Still, Mammaw seemed normal and glad to see us, and we had a good talk.

He paid for her to come home to see me several times when she was in New Orleans, and he probably paid for the train trips Mammaw and I took to see Mother.

New Orleans brought memories of previous trips: when I was a little boy watching Mother kneel by the railroad tracks and cry as Mammaw and I pulled away in the train.

As I picked the weeds from around their tombstones, I was struck again by how few years they’d had on earth: twenty-eight for my father, fifty-eight for Papaw, sixty-six for Mammaw (and back in Hot Springs, fifty-seven for my stepfather).

I was with Mammaw and Papaw when Mother delivered by caesarean section.