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/mˈæmi/
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NOUN
- an offensive term for a Black nursemaid in the southern U.S.
- informal terms for a mother
How To Use mammy In A Sentence
- At the dawn of the U.S. civil rights era, black stereotypes - the shiftless coon, termagant Mammy, servile Uncle Tom - remained the order of the day in popular American mass entertainment.
- My mammy was Mary Fair, and she belonged in slavery to marse Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves South Carolina Narratives, Part 1
- He came out of his mammy in a field hand's cabin one sharp winter.
- Sarah wants to be a nurse like her mammy, Vera, who works in the hospital in Portlaoise.
- Sure nuff debbil, mammy?" whispered Marthy in awed accents. Hagar's Daughter: A Story of Southern Caste Prejudice
- Look beyond the superficial similarities and you will see that he, as evidenced by this quote from a poem, had no respect for his mammy either.
- Mammy said dat de white folkses wuz good ter dem an 'gib 'em good food an' clothes. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves, North Carolina Narratives, Part 1
- Mammy arter him with the broom-stick as fur as the door, but seein 'the dog has got the start, she shakes the stick at him, and hollers,' You sassy, aigsukkin ', roguish, gnatty, flop-eared varmint! take it along! take it along! The Wit and Humor of America, Volume V. (of X.)
- Dat's what my mammy sed, an 'she allers' clar'd dat tow'rd de las 'she nebber could' member what she was at de fus 'no more'n ef she hed'nt been de same gal. Bricks Without Straw
- In this case, moving the funny-page content to a page formerly devoted to the news just might notch up the credulity paid to what would normally be considered standard WSH editorial right wing "hokum," to borrow a word from Li'l Abner's mammy, Pansy. Printing: Rove's Obama Hit-Job Re-Run Oozes Out of Murdoch's Wall Street Journal Op-Ed Section