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mammies

mammies is the plural of mammy.

mammies is the plural of mammie.

Meaning of mammy

Noun

mammy (plural mammies)

  1. (childish) mamma; mother
  2. (US, derogatory, historical, often) 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.1979, Octavia Butler, Kindred

Questions about mammies

What is mammies the plural of?
Mammies is the plural of mammy.

Words near mammies in the dictionary

  1. Mammi market
  2. Mammi markets
  3. mammie
  4. mammie's boy
  5. mammie's boys
  6. mammies
  7. mammifer
  8. mammifera
  9. mammiferous
  10. mammifers
  11. mammiform

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