English Explanatory Dictionary

baby mama

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The mother of a child in common, particularly unmarried.

Pronunciation

En-au-baby mama.ogg

Word forms

baby mama baby mamas baby-mama babymama baby mamma baby-mamma babymamma baby momma baby-momma babymomma

Etymology

Formed in African-American Vernacular English, attested since c. 1986 and popularized in the 2000s. Possibly from or influenced by same term in Jamaican English, from Jamaican Creole baby-mother (“pregnant woman”) (1966), alternatively due simply to grammatical similarities between AAVE and Jamaican Creole.

Synonyms

babymother

Related words

birth mother sperm donor
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