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Definition of Mammy
1. Noun. An offensive term for a Black nursemaid in the southern U.S..
2. Noun. Informal terms for a mother.
Generic synonyms: Female Parent, Mother
Definition of Mammy
1. n. A child's name for mamma, mother.
Definition of Mammy
1. Noun. A child's name for mamma, mother. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Mammy
1. mother [n -MIES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mammy
Literary usage of Mammy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Voice of the Negro 1919 by Robert Thomas Kerlin (1920)
""Good-By, Black mammy" Another but not different view of this new temper of the
Negro is afforded in what he has to say regarding the Southern white ..."
2. Library of Southern Literature by John Calvin Metcalf (1910)
"ME AND mammy Me and mammy know a child, About my age and size, Who, mammy says,
won't go to Heaven 'Cause she's so grown and wise. She answers "Yes" and "No ..."
3. Theatre Arts by Society of Arts and Crafts, Detroit (1920)
"He'll sho'ly try ter come here and see his ole mammy befo' she dies, ... [mammy
Saunders awakes and groans faintly. Ceely hurries over to her bedside. ..."
4. The Works of Robert Burns by Robert Burns (1841)
"I AM my mammy's ae bairn, Wi' unco folk I weary, Sir; And lying in a man's bed,
I'm fley'd it make me eerie, Sir : I'm o'er young to marry yet; ..."
5. Under Both Flags: A Panorama of the Great Civil War as Represented in Story by George Morley Vickers (1896)
"and to mammy's amazement and consternation the girl turned upon her with blazing
... Then, as mammy stood in petrified silence, l)aisy suddenly put both ..."
6. Memoirs of Father Ripa During Thirteen Years' Residence at the Court of by Matteo Ripa (1855)
""My neger, my neger," said mammy Luna, " why you stop ? me link, you savee well,
who thief me ? " This accusation spirited up the woman, who instantly ..."
7. The Advocate of Peace by American Peace Society (1902)
"I don't like mammy to cry so," she added with simplicity, as if suggesting that
... mammy sez daddy won't turn to tiss me again, an' I don't like it," said ..."
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