Definitions for mammies

mammies mam·my

Spelling: [mam-ee]
IPA: /ˈmæm i/

Mammies is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 104 anagrams from letters in mammies (aeimmms).

Definitions for mammies

noun

  1. Informal. mother1 .
  2. Disparaging and Offensive. (formerly in the southern U.S.) a black woman engaged as a nurse to white children or as a servant to a white family.

Origin of mammies

First recorded in 1515-25; mamm(a)1 + -y2

Examples for mammies

Some of 'em never knowed what 'comed of deir brudders and sisters and daddies and mammies.

I am a southern man, born and reared mid slavery, and I pay this tribute to the black "mammies" of the South before the war.

Where there were Negro mammies, white children were likely to be haunted in the night by fear of ghosts.

The black boys were shipped off to their mammies and I fear received their full share of "the condign."

Your mammies didn't have to do it either; any old person would, and send you home to git another lickin'.

That is the way the little girls and boys in the South are taught to make the grasshopper-houses, by the old colored "mammies."

Here the "people" were treated almost as members of the family, "uncles" and "aunts" and "mammies" and playmates.

Dey had a separate house for 'em, and a granny 'oman who didn't have nothin' else to do but look atter colored babies and mammies.

De chillun's mammies, dey would come in from de fields about three times er day to let de babies suck.

Chillen was mostly seen, not heard, different from youngens of today talking backward and foward cross their mammies and pappies.

Word Value for mammies
Scrable

13

Words with friends

16

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