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Etymology

From mommish + -ly.

Meanings

1. In a mommish manner.
   • Mostly. “Just don't go sneaking into my desk anymore,” she added mommishly before walking away. 2011, Karla Oceanak, Dumbstruck, page 134:
   • As a side note, I know this is the most mommishly mommy thing ever, but I HATE glass-topped tables. 2013, Rachel Devenish Ford, A Home as Wide as the Earth:
   • Harris lightly steals the show at the end, when her all-forgiving mompride has her dancing exceptionally mommishly to Rodrick’s heavy-metal band. 2011 March 25, Kyle Smith, “Sweet, sick tween”, in New York Post:

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