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Mammy
Mammy meaning
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.
Example sentences (20)
Micki McElya, in her book Clinging to Mammy, suggests the myth of the faithful slave, in the figure of Mammy, lingered because white Americans wished to live in a world in which African Americans were not angry over the injustice of slavery.
But don’t expect to win any debates with her, because the Irish Mammy always has the last word.
Café supervisor Lisa, 49, told ChronicleLive: "My phone rang and Amy's number came up, and when I answered the baby Ella was screaming in the background and Skye was shouting: "mama, mammy's not well'".
Daddy from Lusmagh, Offaly, and Mammy from Cappamore, Limerick.
In the programme O’Carroll’s character, who is known affectionately as ‘mammy’ in the series, is a foul-mouthed Irish mother.
The Mrs Brown’s Boys Christmas Special Ding Dong Mammy will air on Christmas Day at 11.05pm on BBC One.
All okay – Mammy makes it better.
Boko Haram also claimed responsibility for the bomb explosion at the Mammy market inside a Mogadishu military cantonment popularly called Abacha Barracks in Abuja on New Year’s Eve in 2010, killing nearly 10 people.
Gone With the Wind ironically produced the first Oscar for an African American (Hattie McDaniel, who played Mammy).
The boys paid tribute to Susanna in February, writing on Twitter: 'Rest In Peace Mammy You live on through us We will miss you and your smile.
In this woman I see another reiteration of the Black mammy figure who was reduced to the shadows of rearing children and other unthinkable atrocities.
But there is no reasonable defence for this cartoon, since the point could easily have been made without reducing the world’s most decorated tennis player to a minstrel mammy.
Chukwu said a portion of the land was use for building of a ‘Mammy Market’ while another part is being used for development of post service housing estate for military personnel.
She received the Best Supporting Actress award for her role as Mammy, the head slave at the fictional plantation in “Gone with the Wind” (1939).
That's where your mammy comes in.
The Chief of Army Staff has no stalls or any kind of property in the said Mammy Market,” Chukwu said.
Excerpt from My Old Black Mammy by James W. Elliott, 1914.
In 2010, Mitchell's estate authorized McCaig to write a prequel, which follows the life of the house servant Mammy, whom McCaig names "Ruth".
In popular culture 1940 Women's Press Club skit in which Mammy Congress puts Scarlett O'Budgett into her corset before going to a 'lection party.
Mammy is reluctant to reveal her red petticoat to Rhett; nevertheless, she has sexual knowledge akin to Belle Watling.