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mammy

noun

Etymology

From mam + -y.

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

Definitions

  1. mamma

    mamma; mother

  2. In the southern United States, a black nanny employed to look after white children

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