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Meemaw

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Meemaw or Mee-maw may refer to:

  • meemaw or mee-mawing, speaking with exaggerated mouth movements to allow lip reading
  • Meemaw or Maw-maw, an affectionate term for a grandmother -- might originate from Scandinavian languages, e.g. mormor = maternal grandmother (mor=mother, thus your mother's mother), or "papaw/pawpaw" from farfar = paternal grandfather (far=father, thus your father's father). Also: morfar (maternal grandfather), and farmor (paternal grandmother).
  • Constance "Meemaw" Tucker, a character on Young Sheldon