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Mammygate

name

Etymology

From mammy + -gate.

  1. borrowed from Mam — “Mum, Mom”
  2. suffixed as mammy — “mam + y”
  3. suffixed as mammygate — “mammy + gate”

Definitions

  1. A 2008 controversy around the allegation that Gloria Squitiro, wife of Kansas City mayor…

    A 2008 controversy around the allegation that Gloria Squitiro, wife of Kansas City mayor Mark Funkhouser, called a black secretary "mammy".

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA