mammy
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mammy
Rhymes with -æmi
noun mammies · mamie · mammie
- mamma; mother
- In the southern United States, a black nanny employed to look after white children; or in the antebellum South, a female slave who was close to the household and looked after the children. That's what you for—to help white folks keep niggers down. That's why he sent you to me. They be calling you mammy in a few years. You be running the whole house when the old man dies.
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Talk about this word "mammy." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/mammy. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. mammy. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/mammy "mammy." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/mammy.
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@misc{mammy_2026,
title = {mammy},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
url = {https://micwyn.com/word/mammy},
urldate = {2026-11-06}
}
