Meemaw or Mee-maw may refer to:

  • meemaw or mee-mawing, speaking with exaggerated mouth movements to allow lip reading
  • Meemaw or Maw-maw, an affectionate term for a grandmother -- might originate from Scandinavian languages, e.g. mormor = maternal grandmother (mor=mother, thus your mother's mother), or "papaw/pawpaw" from farfar = paternal grandfather (far=father, thus your father's father). Also: morfar (maternal grandfather), and farmor (paternal grandmother).[1]
  • Constance "Meemaw" Tucker, a character on Young Sheldon
  1. ^ "Mamaw/Meemaw, papaw/Peepaw [grandmother/Mother, grandfather/Father]". Word Reference. 8 September 2017.