mammies
- plural of mammy.
Example Sentences
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"It was just pure joy, words can't describe it, to have those four healthy babies, their mammies and daddies and their granny and grandad."
From BBC • Mar. 14, 2021
"They deserve all the credit, and we should celebrate all those lockdown mammies this Mother's Day."
From BBC • Mar. 14, 2021
He was talking about “A Subtlety,” a massive sculpture by the artist Kara Walker, a sugar-coated monument to African-American mammies and to the slave labor that built the 19th-century sugar trade.
From New York Times • Jul. 4, 2014
While early-morning market mammies stared, Jeeploads of soldiers moved into the suburban gardens of government Ministers and tanks deployed around Nkrumah's presidential compound itself.
From Time Magazine Archive
Better fit you went off home and asked your dear mammies to put 'ee to bed early.
From Nicky-Nan, Reservist by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir
