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In some senses, mammy is marked as US, historical, pejorative. Watch for register when choosing this word.
mammy
noun 2
Collocations
3ADJ.
many
VERB + MAMMY
calling
PREP.
in
Definitions
noun
1
mamma; mother
2
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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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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Mammy, you are an exploiter!
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How many eggs did mammy buy?
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