Mammy Definition

mămē
mammies
noun
mammies

Mother.

Webster's New World
A black woman responsible for the care of white children, esp. in the South.
Webster's New World
A black nursemaid, especially one formerly in the southern United States.
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Other Word Forms of Mammy

Noun

Singular:
mammy
Plural:
mammies

Origin of Mammy

  • From dialectal mam variant of mama

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Mammy Sentence Examples

  • It's me ur yer mammy'll be tane furra mug.

  • Oh, I got to do it, yo ' po ' mammy 's got to kill you to save you, honey.

  • I's gwine to be sole into slavery, en in a year you's gwine to buy yo ' ole mammy free ag'in.

  • It was a sad parting; one went one way, one another, and our poor mammy went home with nothing.

  • McCoy created some of the most popular, beginning with their first, the Mammy cookie jar in the late 1930s.

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Words Starting With

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