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"ref": "1944 May–June, “When the Circle was Steam Operated”, in The Railway Magazine, London: Tothill Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 150",
"text": "The length of the stoppages could not well be reduced; indeed, they are already too short if we are to believe the tale now current of a wandering Jew sort of passenger—a lady of advanced years who can only alight from a train backwards. Every time she begins to get out a porter rushes up crying \"Hurry up, ma'am; train's going!\"—and pushes her in again!",
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"text": "There are no obligatory codes of behaviour when meeting The Queen or a member of the Royal Family, but many people wish to observe the traditional forms. […] On presentation to The Queen, the correct formal address is ‘Your Majesty’ and subsequently ‘Ma’am’, pronounced with a short ‘a’, as in ‘jam’. […] For other female members of the Royal Family the first address is conventionally ‘Your Royal Highness’ and subsequently ‘Ma’am’.\nAccording to the Oxford English Dictionary, the information is based on a Buckingham Palace protocol dating to c. 1990.",
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"sense": "chiefly used as a form of address: contraction of madam — see also madam",
"word": "美女"
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"sense": "chiefly used as a form of address: contraction of madam — see also madam",
"word": "ქალბატონო"
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"sense": "chiefly used as a form of address: contraction of madam — see also madam",
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"word": "婦人"
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"word": "아주머니"
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"word": "гуай"
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"lang": "Nanai",
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"word": "हजुर"
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"word": "美女"
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"code": "fy",
"lang": "West Frisian",
"sense": "chiefly used as a form of address: contraction of madam — see also madam",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "mefrou"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "married woman other than one’s wife",
"word": "rouva"
}
],
"word": "ma'am"
}
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"English countable nouns",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English entries with language name categories using raw markup",
"English lemmas",
"English nouns",
"English palindromes",
"English polite terms",
"English terms of address",
"English terms with IPA pronunciation",
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"English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
"English verbs",
"Rhymes:English/æm",
"Rhymes:English/æm/1 syllable",
"Rhymes:English/ɑːm",
"Rhymes:English/ɑːm/1 syllable"
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},
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{
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"name": "sup"
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{
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}
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{
"form": "ma'ams",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "ma'aming",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
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"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
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},
{
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"participle",
"past"
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{
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"past"
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{
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"participle",
"past"
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"form": "ma'ammed",
"tags": [
"past"
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}
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"pres_ptc2": "ma'amming"
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"name": "en-verb"
}
],
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"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English informal terms",
"English terms with quotations",
"English transitive verbs"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "2014, Debra Clopton, Her Unexpected Cowboy, New York, N.Y.: Harlequin Love Inspired, page 42",
"text": "[\"]And, fellas, I've got to tell you that your Texas manners are perfect. Y'all have about ma'amed me to death. But you can call me Lucy from here on out. Got it?\" / \"Yes, ma'am—I mean, Lucy,\" Joseph complied, taking the sledgehammer and grinning as he looked from it to the blue wall.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
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"To address (a woman) as \"ma'am\"."
],
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[
"address",
"address#Verb"
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[
"woman",
"woman#Noun"
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[
"ma'am",
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],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive, informal) To address (a woman) as \"ma'am\"."
],
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"informal",
"transitive"
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}
],
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{
"ipa": "/mæm/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/mɑːm/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/mæm/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/mɑm/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
},
{
"ipa": "[mɛəm]",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
},
{
"ipa": "[meəm]",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
},
{
"rhymes": "-æm"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɑːm"
},
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"audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-ma'am.wav",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/5/5a/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-ma%27am.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-ma%27am.wav.mp3",
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"tags": [
"Southern-England"
],
"text": "Audio (Southern England)"
},
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"audio": "En-us-ma'am.oga",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/3/3d/En-us-ma%27am.oga/En-us-ma%27am.oga.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3d/En-us-ma%27am.oga",
"tags": [
"General-American"
],
"text": "Audio (GA)"
}
],
"word": "ma'am"
}
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