| 释义 |
mauma, maumer, maumie
varr. mamma, = mammy 2.
1835W. G. Simms Partisan 141 You have told me nothing of old mauma. 1838C. Gilman Recoll. Southern Matron xv. 101 Who does not remember his youthful Christmas; the reiterated charge to his maumer to awaken him first? 1881Harper's Mag. Apr. 737/2 Maumie, how I should like to see a Hoodoo meeting! 1890Ibid. July 232/1 Respectable colored ‘maumas’, ample of girth, in spotted white aprons. 1895Century Mag. May 155/2 Only a few, a very few, of the faithful old ‘maumers’ and loyal house- and body-servants remain. 1950Publ. Amer. Dial. Soc. xiv. 46 Mauma,..name by which elderly Negro women were called by the children of the family with which they were connected. |