Plural of mammy
regular plural
The plural of mammy is mammies.
Forms of mammy
| Singular | mammy |
|---|---|
| Plural | mammies |
| Countable | countable |
Mammies in a sentence
- In the hands of a skillful writer, the South's colorful cast of genteel aristocrats, coquettish belles, devoted mammies, and rumptious hill folk could be enchanting.1988, Daniel E. Sutherland, The Confederate Carpetbaggers, Baton Rouge, L.A.; London: Louisiana State University Press, →ISBN, page 259. From the entry rumptious
Meaning of mammy
- noun Mamma; mother.
- noun 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.
Questions about the plural of mammy
- What is the plural of mammy?
- The plural of mammy is mammies.
- Is mammy countable?
- Mammy is a countable noun.
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: mammy (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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