mammy

Definitions

1. mamma; mother
   childish
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.
   US, historical, often, pejorative

Equivalents

Examples

“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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