mommom

English

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Reduplication of mom? Maybe compare Scandinavian mormor.”)

Noun

mommom (plural mommoms)

1. (informal) Grandmother.
   • 2006, Cecilia Kleinkauf, River Girls: Fly Fishing for Young Women, Big Earth Publishing, →ISBN, page 116:

     "My first flyfishing experience was in the early 1960s when my grandmother, Margaret Glidewell, taught me and all of her grandchildren to fish," she says. "My fondest memories are of my youth, when I was five or six, staying at the cabin and fishing next to my Mommom, as we called her."

   • 2018, Heather DeJesus Yates, All The Wild Pearls: A Guide for Passing Down Redemptive Stories Heather DeJesus Yates, Bridge Logos Inc, →ISBN, page 24:

     In 2005, I was privileged to be at my grandmother's bedside when she went Home to be with Jesus. My “Mommom” had only confirmed with me a year earlier, ...

   • 2020, Dr. Geri-Lynn Utter PsyD, Mainlining Philly: Survival, Hope, and Resisting Drug Addiction, Literary House Publishing, →ISBN:

     Similar to the generational pattern observed in my mommom's and grandfather's relationship, ...