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Slang variants such as "yo momma", "yer ma" or "yer maw" are sometimes used, depending on the local dialect. Insults involving "Your mom" are commonly used when Playing The Dozens . Additionally, this phrase is frequently used in playful banter between friends. Although this may appear to be a recent phenomenon, one can trace its roots far back in history. Indeed, William Shakespeare appears to utilize such a device in Act I Scene 1 of Timon Of Athens :
Although the phrase has a long history of including a description portion (such as the old, mostly harmless insult "your mama wears Army shoes"), the phrase "yo mama" by itself, without any qualifiers, has become commonly used as an all-purpose insult or an expression of defiance. In the UK and Australia instead of "yo mama", "your mum" or "ya' mum" is more commonly used. USE AS A RETORT "Your mom" is also sometimes used as a Sarcastic or Tongue-in-cheek retort to either a mild criticism or even an innocuous statement. This often results in a Sexual Innuendo , as in the following example: :Speaker 1: What are you doing? :Speaker 2: Your mom. The classic "Your Momma" joke follows this guideline: Your momma is so (blank) she (blank), in which the first blank is substituted for fat, stupid, etc., and the second is an example of the first blank. :Example Yo momma is so stupid, she put a quarter in a parking meter and waited for a gumball. IN POPULAR CULTURE "Your mom" jokes became common in North American pop culture in the early nineties. The Pharcyde 's 1992 track "Ya Mama" echoed it, as did the film '' released a song called "Yo Mama" that made number 17 on the 2004 Triple J Hottest 100 . In the early nineties, British comedy duo Newman and Baddiel of The Mary Whitehouse Experience added an extra layer of irony to the mother insult by using it extensively in their "History Today" routines in which two restrained elderly university professors debate history seriously until breaking into childish insults, often using the format "See that X? That's your mum that is." SEE ALSO
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