Definition, Betydelse & Synonymer | Engelska ordet MA'AM

Definition av MA'AM

1. titel för kvinnor, motsvarar männens sir

Exempel på hur man kan använda MA'AM i en mening

• The soldier asked, "What'ya expect, ma'am – a Renaissance table set for 13?" She replied, "Yes! That's just what I did expect".
• Drill instructors are referred to as "sir" or "ma'am" by recruits within the USAF, USMC, and USCG (for the first few weeks of basic training, until recruits are instructed to refer to their company commanders by their proper rank).
• Unlike midshipmen in the Royal Australian Navy and officer cadets in the Royal Australian Air Force who hold a commission, officer cadets in the Australian Army do not yet hold a permanent commission, and are not saluted or referred to as "sir" or "ma'am".
• On comforting the family, Hompes records, the "head of the family took hold of her arm and grasping it tightly, said, with tears in his eyes: 'Aye, ma'am, but have ye ever seen a child clemmed to death?'" This question is almost precisely repeated in the mouth of John Barton: "Han they ever have seen a child o' their'n die for want o' food?" in chapter 4.
• " Reub looked at the woman almost apologetically and said, "Why it was easy, ma'am, I just counted all the legs and divided by four.
• Zeigler believed Riley Ann should be disciplined to say "sir" and "ma'am" to adults, as well as the phrases "please" and "thank you," and that corporal punishment was the best means of disciplining a child.
• A lawyer representing Epic asked for Matthew Weissinger, the developer-publisher's marketing director, to clarify if there was "anything inappropriate about Peely without clothes", to which Weissinger was quoted as stating "It's just a banana, ma'am".

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