'm
nounEtymology Contraction of madam/ma'am. Typologically compare Russian -с (-s).
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Represents the word madam or ma'am when used as a formal address of a female; as in yes'm and no'm.
'm
verb/əm/ · /m̩/
Etymology Contraction of am.
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Clitic Am, used especially in I'm.
- What'm I gon' do?
- “So how'm I not good?”2008, Elizabeth George, Playing for the Ashes, Bantam, →ISBN, page 158:
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Clitic, Dialectal Various forms of be.
- You'm no better than a baby when they've clacketed at ye for an hour or two without a word of sense from beginnin' to end.1874, Frances Mary Peard, Thorpe Regis:
- "He'm a bad one. Ooh, he'm a bad one, Mister," and she laughed softly. "I seed 'im flying, riding on the wind," she laughed again, "and the moon be'ind 'im, lightin' up the way. They'm close as sisters, moon and Devil."1962, John Le Carre, A Murder of Quality:
1 more example
- “Ah, it's a wonder we’m got two sticks to us name, with all that plunder what youm 'ad already.”2016, Alan Moore, Jerusalem, Liveright, page 180:
- Related terms
- m', ’d, ’ll, ’re, ’s, ’ve