mammy
Meaning of mammy
noun
- Mamma; mother
- (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.
Information about mammy
- It is a name.
- The plural form of mammy is: mammies.
- Languages in which mammy is used:
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Hyphenation of mammy
mammy
- It consists of 1 syllables and 5 chars.
- mammy is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable
mammy synonyms
Meaning ma:
ma, mama, mamma, mom, momma, mommy, mum, mummy
Words that rhyme with mammy
Cammy, gammy, chammy, hammy, shammy, whammy, jammy, clammy, lammy, grandmammy, Pammy, spammy, Grammy, grammy, rammy, Sammy, sammy, Tammy, tammy
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