'm

/əm//m̩/

verb

Am, used especially in I'm.

“What'm I gon' do?”

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Meanings

'm1

verb’m (clitic)
  1. cliticAm, used especially in I'm.

    What'm I gon' do?

    1 more example

    “So how'm I not good?”

    2008, Elizabeth George, Playing for the Ashes, Bantam, →ISBN, page 158
  2. cliticdialectalVarious forms of be.

    “Ah, it's a wonder we’m got two sticks to us name, with all that plunder what youm 'ad already.”

    2016, Alan Moore, Jerusalem, Liveright, page 180
    2 more examples

    You'm no better than a baby when they've clacketed at ye for an hour or two without a word of sense from beginnin' to end.

    1874, Frances Mary Peard, Thorpe Regis

    "He'm a bad one. Ooh, he'm a bad one, Mister," and she laughed softly. "I seed 'im flying, riding on the wind," she laughed again, "and the moon be'ind 'im, lightin' up the way. They'm close as sisters, moon and Devil."

    1962, John Le Carre, A Murder of Quality

'm2

pronoun
  1. alternativeAlternative form of 'em.

    1967-1969, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure I picked up two stones and threw ’m in the air, heard ’m drop

'm3

noun’m
  1. Represents the word madam or ma'am when used as a formal address of a female; as in yes'm and no'm.

Synonyms & antonyms

Also see
ma'am

Origin

'm · verb

Contraction of am.

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'm · noun

Contraction of madam/ma'am. Typologically compare Russian -с (-s).

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Cite this entry
APA

'm. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/'m

MLA

“'m.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/'m. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “'m,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/'m.

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