EGAVE

mammy

About 0.56 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun mamma; mother
  2. 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.

Similar words

momma mater mommy mum mama mom mummy mamma ma mam

Often followed by

and was had to is in said pleasant would

Word family

mammies

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