mammy

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun

mamma; mother
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.

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From mam + -y.

mammy market mammy wagon

grandmammy Mammygate

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