father vs meemaw

father

noun
  • A person who plays the role of a father in some way. 

  • The founder of a discipline or science. 

  • A member of a church council. 

  • Something that is the greatest or most significant of its kind. 

  • The archived older version of a file that immediately precedes the current version, and was itself derived from the grandfather. 

  • A term of respectful address for a priest. 

  • Something inanimate that begets. 

  • A male ancestor more remote than a parent; a progenitor; especially, a first ancestor. 

  • A (generally human) male who begets a child. 

  • A term of respectful address for an elderly man. 

verb
  • To act as a father; to support and nurture. 

  • To provide with a father. 

  • To adopt as one's own. 

  • To give rise to. 

  • To be a father to; to sire. 

meemaw

noun
  • Synonym of mamaw (“grandmother”) 

verb
  • To mouth words so that they can be heard over noise (or later so that they cannot be overheard), originally in the cotton industry of Lancashire. 

How often have the words father and meemaw occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )