mum

noun, Cdn & Brit., informal, mother (COD)

“My mum and dad, we’d come over to the little cottage down on the south shore, down from here, which my brother has now.”

“Dad played the violin and Mum the piano.”

“I know one winter Mum said she never went to town all winter. She never got to town until the ice had left.”

“I can remember Mum and I walking up as far as the garage of today. And standing there watching the smoke. That’s as far as she’d go.”

“I can remember Mum always had a big long tablecloth on the table, and I can remember getting up and laying on the chairs underneath the table when I’d see him coming, so he wouldn’t know where I was.”