mammy

Other forms of mammy

plural

mammies·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about mammy

What does mammy mean?

mammy means "an offensive term for a Black nursemaid in the southern U.S.". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in mammy?

mammy has 2 syllables: mam-my. The stress falls on "mam".

What is another word for mammy?

Close synonyms include ma, mama, mamma, mom, momma. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is mammy a common word?

mammy is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.