Associations to the word «Amah»

Wiktionary

AMAH, noun. A woman employed to look after children in India; a wet nurse.
AMAH, noun. A maid in China and other parts of Asia.

Dictionary definition

AMAH, noun. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
AMAH, noun. A female domestic.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope