Usually means: Stereotypical caregiver, Black woman, caricature.
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We found 27 dictionaries that define the word mammy:

General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. mammy: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. mammy: Merriam-Webster
  3. mammy: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. mammy: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. mammy: Collins English Dictionary
  6. mammy: Vocabulary.com
  7. Mammy, mammy: Wordnik
  8. mammy: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. mammy: Wiktionary
  10. mammy: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. mammy: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Mammy, mammy: Dictionary.com
  13. mammy: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Mammy (disambiguation), Mammy (film), Mammy (song), Mammy: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Mammy: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. mammy: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. mammy: Rhymezone
  18. Mammy: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. mammy: FreeDictionary.org
  20. mammy: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. mammy: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. mammy: Encyclopedia

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Mammy (offensive): Racial Slur Database
  2. mammy, mammy: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  3. MAMMY: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See mammies as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  (childish) mamma; mother
noun:  (US, 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.

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