mamma grizzly

plural mamma grizzlies

1. alternativeAlternative spelling of mama grizzly.

   Ronan could handle a lot of things, up to and including a mad mamma grizzly clicking her teeth at him and rearing to her full seven-foot height on her hind legs. But he could not handle a woman in tears!

   2008, Cara Colter, chapter 4, in Her Royal Wedding Wish (By Royal Appointment, 1; Harlequin Romance, 4030), Toronto, Ont.: Harlequin, →ISBN, pages 79–80

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   “Here, you mean old thing, is your little cub. Ain’t you glad to see him?” or words to that effect, is the kind of talk she made to the grizzly. It was effective. Mamma grizzly complacently accepted her young and the two trotted off into the foothills while I lay on cactus needles trying to convince my vital organs their work was not yet done.

   1898 February 13, “Too Much for Bears: Girl of 16 Whips Two Grizzlies in a Hand-to-Hand Fight. […]”, in The Sunday Inter Ocean, volume XXVI, number 326, Chicago, Ill., →OCLC, page 25, column 4

   His mother had the same tone in her voice she’d once used to tell the Fundie preacher, who called uninvited to denounce her son as the spawn of Satan, to go to hell. In that mode, she reminded him of mamma grizzlies and female lions defending their cubs.

   1998 August, Camille Bacon-Smith, chapter 8, in Eyes of the Empress (Daemons, Inc., 2; DAW Book Collectors No. 1094), New York, N.Y.: DAW Books, →ISBN, pages 74–75