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Mammy

Mamma; mother

📖 Definitions of "Mammy"

noun
  1. 1

    Mamma; mother

  2. 2

    (historical, often pejorative) 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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