mammy
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English
Etymology
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -æmi
Noun
mammy (plural mammies)
- (childish) mamma; mother
- (US, historical, often pejorative) 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.
- 1979, Octavia Butler, Kindred:
- 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.
- 1979, Octavia Butler, Kindred:
Translations
child's name for mother
See also
probably etymologically unrelated terms
French
Noun
mammy f (plural mammys)
- Alternative spelling of mamie
Polish
Pronunciation
Verb
mammy