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amahs

n. (plural of amah English)

Usage examples of "amahs".

Those with normal feet were peasants, servants, low-class prostitutes, amahs or workers, and despised.

Ah Sam rushed about officiously and hugged the children, who were waiting in the house with their personal amahs, and propped May-may in the huge bed and brought the children to her.

Horatio was in England, so I asked—I asked one of the amahs to find me a lover.

She'd probably had more interaction with her alien amahs than she'd had with her parents.

That's all the amahs ever made for her after they stopped wet-nursing her.

It was always the same: clothes, the heat, the water shortages, complaints about amahs and other servants, how expensive everything was or the children or schools.

The two tousled, sleepy amahs appeared hastily out of the kitchen and gaped at him, shocked at his untoward rage.

The two amahs began wailing but everyone hurriedly obeyed him and he slammed the door shut.

Dianne Chen screeched at the amahs, then reached over and pinched one sharply on the cheek.

Again the two amahs began whimpering at her fury and she turned her spleen on them for a moment, adding, "And as to you two, while I think of it, the quality of service in this house's enough to give anyone loose bowels.

But then, most of the wives complain about how tired they are, how exhausting children are, and about amahs and school and the expense.

It looked like it had been a house once, a slum tenement for cheap labor—so cheap it didn't even have en suite bathrooms and automated amahs to do the cleaning.