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Title woman in a Jolson classic
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mammy
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1520s, diminutive of mam (see mamma ). Meaning "black woman having the care of white children" is by 1837, Southern U.S. dialect, variant of mamma .
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. an offensive term for a Black nursemaid in the southern U.S. informal terms for a mother [syn: ma , mama , mamma , mom , momma , mommy , mum , mummy , mater ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
mammy \mam"my\ (m[a^]m"m[y^]), n.; pl. mammies (m[a^]m"m[i^]z). A child's name for mamma, mother.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Mammy (1930) is an American pre-Code musical drama film with Technicolor sequences, released by Warner Bros. The film starred Al Jolson and was a follow-up to his previous film, Say It with Songs (1929). Mammy became Al Jolson's fourth feature, following ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context childish English) mamma; mother 2 (context US historical English) In the southern United States, a black nanny employed to look after white children.
Usage examples of mammy.
It was from that vantage that I saw Eliza Arnold near, and set her hands upon the bunched shoulders of Mammy Venus.
Arnold sat upright, leaving long strands of black hair in the hands of Mammy Venus.
She bade Mammy Venus stand, and return to her chore: brushing the black hair all down its length.
Mason beside her, a bedazed Mammy Venus was set upon by Jacob Van Eyn, asking after his wife.
I stuttered the question to completion, asking how Mammy Venus had survived.
I knelt, careful of the glass, and watched Mammy Venus and the black hens that circled her blacker skirt.
For surety, Mammy Venus parted the pecking lot of birds, dragging her feet to erase all signs of her art.
Would I have reacted similarly had I heard this news from Mammy Venus herself?
But the third I peeled and proffered to Mammy Venus, watching as up it went behind the nodding veil.
I obeyed Mammy, skirted the market, and made my way to Monumental Church.
But still he fell silent, and backed up the stairs slowly, away from Mammy Venus and toward his unseen mother.
Again Edgar raised an accusing finger to point down the stairs to Mammy Venus, standing now at the first step, with Rosalie beside and slightly behind her.
I inventoried my self as earlier Mammy and I had inventoried the trunk.
Eliza decamped to a dark corner, where she suffered quite well the curses of Mammy Venus.
From the folds of her black frock, Mammy Venus had drawn forth a length of timeworn leather from which there depended a locket of pressed tin.