mammy
Child's maternal term
Mammy is a child's word for mother, now old-fashioned or dialectal.
In American history, mammy specifically referred to a Black woman who nursed or raised white children in slaveholding households.
The "mammy" stereotype—a heavyset, nurturing, devoted Black servant—became a racist caricature in popular culture, appearing on products and in films like *Gone with the Wind*.
The term is offensive when applied to Black women generally.
Soothing song for babies
- cradleRocking bed for infants
- sootheGently ease discomfort
- nourishProvide sustenance to
- embraceHold closely in arms
hug · protective · upbringing · guidance · supportive · consoling · encouragement · rocking
- Gone with the WindCivil War era epic
- minstrelsyArt of traveling performers
- caricatureExaggerated comic depiction
- plantationLarge-scale farming operation
antebellum · Old South · Jim Crow · blackface · servitude · subservient · Uncle Tom's Cabin · racial
Female parent
- maCasual term for mother
- mumRefusing to speak
- matriarchFemale family leader
- motherhoodState of being a female parent
maternity · parenting · birth · biological · lineage · ancestress · progenitor
Hired child caretaker
- nursemaidDomestic child caretaker
- wet nurseBreastfeeds another's child
- babysitterHired child caretaker
- guardianProtective caretaker of another
attendant · ayah · amah · childminder · housekeeper · domestic · servant · helper
lullaby
Soothing song for babies
embrace · hug · protective · upbringing · guidance · supportive · consoling · encouragement · rocking · feeding
Hattie McDaniel
- Gone with the WindCivil War era epic
- minstrelsyArt of traveling performers
- caricatureExaggerated comic depiction
plantation · antebellum · Old South · Jim Crow · blackface · servitude · subservient · Uncle Tom's Cabin · racial · misrepresentation
mother
Female parent
motherhood · maternity · parenting · birth · biological · lineage · ancestress · progenitor
nanny
Hired child caretaker
- nursemaidDomestic child caretaker
- wet nurseBreastfeeds another's child
- babysitterHired child caretaker
guardian · attendant · ayah · amah · childminder · housekeeper · domestic · servant · helper · minder
- Momsmother, mummy, ma, mater, new mother
- Irish Slangcraic, eejit, gobshite, banjaxed, slagging
- plantationsplantation, Melrose, Monmouth, Longwood, plantation owner
- mama's boyOverly dependent adult son
- mama bearFiercely defensive mother figure
- baby mamaUnmarried mother of one's child
- mama's cooking
- yo mama jokesRitualized comedic maternal insults
- yo mamaTaunt's traditional subject
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