Entry · catalog no. 0448
'nem
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noun · south · 2026
✓ Verified
1.
And them — tacked onto a name to mean that person together with their people: their family, household, or crew. As in "Mama 'nem" for your mother and everybody with her.
“You seen Pam 'nem at the cookout?”
Origin & Attribution
A Southern and African American English construction, a compact plural of association long documented across the Black South.
Region of origin
West
Midwest
N.East
South
The South
south · 2026
Spoken by
south
$NEMThe Record · cultural traction
▲ Rising0 yrs
ahead of the mainstream
12/100
peak cultural energy
Introduced to English by the culture — logged here before the mainstream caught on.
Cultural usage — the recordMainstream search interest
First used
2026
in the culture
Recorded here
2026
point of first record
Cultural energy indexed from documented usage, search interest, and citation frequency. The recorded date is the archive’s permanent point of record.
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