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Meanings of mammy in English

Portuguese
mãezinha
Catalan
mami
Spanish
mamá

Informal terms for a mother.

      mãezinha
      Usage of mammy in English
      1
      After she birthed my mammy, she disappeared two days later, they say.
      Wench: a novel
      2
      My mammy will kill the fatted calf for you in great style.
      The Honorable Peter Stirling and What People Thought of Him
      3
      I forgot to say this: My mammy was born in South Carolina.
      Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States...
      4
      Go home to your mammy straight away, and the sooner the better.
      The Story of the Mormons, from the Date of Their Origin to the Y...
      5
      And you wanted to be tied to his mammy by the wrist.
      Dick in the Everglades
      6
      The dance she must have learned from a mammy when a child.
      Army Letters from an Officer's Wife, 1871-1888
      7
      My mammy and daddy got three months' schoolin' in the old country.
      Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States...
      8
      They was traded around and then mammy was sold to William Driver.
      Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States...
      9
      My mammy say she bress de Lord dat you came to Charleston.
      A Yankee Girl at Fort Sumter
      10
      Daddy Dolan always kisses mammy when he comes from all day gone.
      At the Foot of the Rainbow
      11
      Yer better go home to yer mammy, if ye kin find her.
      The Tides of Barnegat
      12
      And then I'd forget and call you 'mammy,' which would require explanation.
      When a Man Marries
      13
      My father's name was Thomas Woods and my mammy was Frances Foster.
      Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States...
      14
      I didn't realize they were talking about me until mammy spoke up.
      Through stained glass / A Novel
      15
      We were so much alike our own mammy couldn't tell us apart.
      Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1907 to 1908
      16
      My pappy's name was Jackson McInotsh, and my mammy name was Hagar.
      Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States...
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      Translations for mammy
      Spanish
      mamámama
      Mammy through the time
      Mammy across language varieties
      Ireland
      Common
      United Kingdom
      Common
      United States of America
      Less common