mammyn.int.

Brit.

/ˈmami/, U.S.

/ˈmæmi/

Forms: 1500s– mammie, 1500s– mammy; Scottish pre-1700 mamay, pre-1700 mame, pre-1700 mamye, pre-1700 mannie, pre-1700 mawmy, pre-1700 1700s mamie, pre-1700 1700s– mammie, 1700s– mammy, 1800s– maamie, 1900s– mami (Shetland); U.S. regional (southern) 1800s maumie. Also with capital initial.

Origin: Probably a variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymons: mama n.¹, mama n.¹

Etymology: Probably either < mam n.¹ or < mama n.¹, with ending remodelled after -y suffix⁶ (although both mam n.¹ and mama n.¹ are first attested slightly later). Compare daddy n.Many of the compounds at Compounds 1 reflect the West African English use of mammy or mamma as a word for any woman (compare Krio mami). The mammy chair was presumably developed for the use of women traders boarding foreign ships, and the mammy wagon is characteristically occupied by women marketing or transporting goods.

colloquial and regional.

a. One's mother; a mother.Mammy occurs most commonly in children's language. It is chiefly used as a form of address, or preceded by a possessive (as ‘my mammy’); it is also used without possessive (e.g., in quot. 2009) in the manner of a proper name.

ΘΚΠ

society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > parent > mother > [noun]

mothereOE

dame?c1225

merea1275

childbearera1382

genitricea1500

mammy1523

dama1547

mama1555

genetrix1561

mam1570

mum?1595

old lady1599

authoressc1603

mam1608

genitress1610

old woman1668

old girl1745

mummy1768

momma1810

madre1815

maw1826

ma1829

marm1835

mater1843

mom1846

mommy1846

maternal1867

motherkins1870

muvver1871

mumsy1876

mamacita1887

mutti1905

birth mother1906

duchess1909

amma1913

momsey1914

mums1915

moms1925

mata1945

baby-mother1966

mama1982

old dear1985

baby-mama1986

1523 J. Skelton Goodly Garlande of Laurell 974 Your mammy and your dady Brought forth a godely babi!

1560 Nice Wanton (Manly) 452 All this our Mammy would take in good worth.

1562 T. Phaer tr. Virgil Æneid viii. Z iij b Their mammies teats they lap with hungry lipps.

1666 in J. Forbes Cantus (ed. 2) xlix Will said to his mammie that he would go woo.

1719 in T. D'Urfey Wit & Mirth V. 18 She'll be a Mammy before it is long.

1773 F. Burney Early Jrnls. & Lett. (1988) I. 320 I..proceed to be sorry & glad, that You & your Mammy have been ill, & are better.

1793 R. Burns Poems & Songs (1968) II. 694 And ay she wrought her Mammie's wark, And ay she sang sae merrilie.

1842 S. Lover Handy Andy i Andy grew up in mischief and the admiration of his mammy.

1886 J. Burgess Sketches 3 Rin dee wis oot, jewel, an' bring maamie in twartree paets.

1892 J. Barlow Bogland Stud. (1893) 91 Often afore it died Did be askin' its mammy for bread.

1893 C. M. Yonge Treasures in Marshes ii. 13 What shall we do with it, mammie?

1940 B. L. Burman Big River to Cross ii. 48 Twice every year he used to go back to Greenville, and give his mammy and pappy all the gold money they could carry.

1959 I. Opie & P. Opie Lore & Lang. Schoolchildren ii. 26 Ye cannae shove yer grannie For she's yer mammie's mammie.

1990 Times 14 May 17/7 Some of the men of west Scotland have a long way to go... Their mammies..will wait upon them until the day they marry.

2009 E. Thom Tin-kin 27 Dawn's baby sister Linda was a good girl, Mammy always said. A wee lamb that turned folks' heads.

b. U.S. colloquial. As int. As an exclamation expressing surprise or pleasure.

ΚΠ

1942 L. V. Berrey & M. Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang §277/7 Interj. of pleasure... Mamma! Mammy!.. Oh mama! Oh mammy.

1967 in Dict. Amer. Regional Eng. (1996) III. 490/2 s.v. Mamma,..also mammy and in var. phrr: Used as an exclamation of surprise or pleasure... Gee mammy.

2. Scottish. A wet nurse; a foster mother. Now rare (Shetland in later use). Perhaps Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > parent > mother > [noun] > foster-mother

foster-mother?a1000

nursing mother1535

nurse-mother1579

fostress1603

foster-nurse1607

mammy1618

1618 in W. Fraser Memorials Montgomeries (1859) I. 207 As concerning your dochter Elinor, I am verye glaid that ye haue gottin ane young milk woman to hir, seing hir mamye proued not sufficient.

1638 Ld. Wariston Diary (1911) I. 293 Lisbie James his mammie haiving committed theft and drunkennes..my wife..put hir to the yett.

1696 in A. W. C. Hallen Acct. Bk. Sir J. Foulis (1894) 190 To my soine Sandies mamie in charitie.

1768 A. Ross Fortunate Shepherdess ii. 88 An' did him to the glens directly hy, Where his auld mammy kept his store an' ky, Blyth was the wife her foster son to see.

1866 T. Edmondston Etymol. Gloss. Shetland & Orkney Dial. 69 Maamie, a wet-nurse.

1932 A. Horsbøl tr. J. Jakobsen Etymol. Dict. Norn Lang. in Shetland II. 538/1 Mami, a wet-nurse; a woman acting as a mother to the children in the mother's absence.

3. In the southern United States, esp. before the abolition of slavery: a black woman with responsibility for the care of white children.Now regarded as derogatory, but not necessarily so in the past.

ΘΚΠ

society > education > upbringing > [noun] > one who brings up > nurse

nouricec1225

nursea1325

rockera1325

nourish1340

nursha1382

nursery nurse1494

nutrice1529

nurse-girl1596

dry-nursea1616

nursey1760

bonne1771

ayah1782

nanny1785

momma1803

nursery girla1812

mammy1837

nanac1844

day nurse1855

caretaker1858

nursekin1862

Norland1894

nounou1894

nurselet1894

Plunket1909

metapelet1950

1837 Southern Literary Messenger 3 744/1 [Aged Negro domestics] were greeted always by the kind appellatives of ‘daddy and mammy’.

1859 J. R. Bartlett Dict. Americanisms (ed. 2) Mammy, the term of endearment used by white children to their negro nurses and to old family servants.

1881 Harper's Mag. Apr. 737/2 Maumie, how I should like to see a Hoodoo meeting!

1887 T. N. Page In Ole Virginia (1893) 164 The old mammies and uncles who were our companions and comrades.

1901 R. D. Evans Sailor's Log i. 3 Like most Southern children, I was brought up and cared for by a ‘black mammy’.

1948 Chicago Daily News 23 Feb. 12/7 Mammy's little baby is a-wearying of short'nin' bread.

1966 K. L. Morgan in A. Dundes Mother Wit (1973) 600/1 Hattie McDaniel and Louise Beavers, the perennial maids and mammies of the movies, were the female stars of the day.

1988 S. Tucker Memories Southern Women Pref. 5 I recognized in such portrayals not only the stereotypical mammy figure but also other stereotypes of female behavior.

Compounds

C1. In West African English usage.

mammy boat n. = mammy chair n.

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > other equipment of vessel > [noun] > basket or chair to convey person to onto boats

mammy chair1904

mammy boat1928

1928 Daily Express 27 Jan. 6/3 A ‘mammy’ boat, which is simply a wicker basket with seats, is slung over the ship's side by crane.

mammy chair n. a (wicker) basket or chair used on ships for conveying persons to and from surf-boats.

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > other equipment of vessel > [noun] > basket or chair to convey person to onto boats

mammy chair1904

mammy boat1928

1904 Chambers's Jrnl. 3 Dec. 15/1 You may elect to travel over the side in the ‘mammy-chair’, a huge barrel with part of its side cut away slung in the air by the steam-winch.

1909 D. Moore & F. G. Guggisberg We Two in W. Afr. 16 So I found myself sitting in the ‘Mammy chair’, an ordinary basket-chair with ropes slung to the arms and back,..and in a moment I was whisked off the deck, swung over the side at the end of a long derrick, [etc.].

1920 Blackwood's Mag. June 848/1 A mammy chair was lowered, and we made the usual undignified ascent to the main deck.

1935 L. G. Green Great Afr. Myst. xv. 192 The ‘mammy-chair’ is like a swingboat at a fair; just a wooden box with two seats facing each other.

mammy-cloth n. a cotton cloth or robe worn wrapped around the body.

ΘΚΠ

the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [noun] > loose clothing > robe or gown > types of > other

stolec950

paramentc1385

stolea1387

vestmentc1386

chimer1487

shemewe1517

parliament1537

Turkey gown1558

slop1570

blue gown1578

dolman1585

palliament1593

synthesis1606

vest1613

paramentoa1640

brandenburgh1676

khilat1684

spagnoleta1685

sultanea1685

sultana1693

garter-robes1702

under-robe1725

wrapper1725

stola1728

talar1738

negligée1755

jama1776

dust-gown1802

yukata1822

manga1824

gandoura1851

pheran1851

riga1851

shamma1862

choga1869

kanzu1870

kimono1886

holoku1893

mammy-cloth1952

1952 Chambers's Jrnl. May 314/1 Their mothers wore dark-coloured mammy-cloths, with designs of playing-cards or elephants and palm-trees, all stamped ‘Made in Manchester’.

1961 G. Greene Burnt-out Case 1. i. 7 When there were no European visitors there were always the old women,..their bodies wrapped in mammy-cloths.

1970 P. Oliver Savannah Syncopators 59 (caption) Hausa women... One wears a ‘mammy-cloth’ printed with portraits of Queen Elizabeth the Second and Prince Philip.

1971 A. Bailey In Village (1972) vii. 56 One man I knew used to dress in the evenings in a mammy cloth, the colorful cotton robe the Africans swaddled themselves in.

mammy lorry n. = mammy wagon n.

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > public service vehicle > [noun] > omnibus > motor-driven > other types

wagonette omnibus1903

jitney bus1914

lorry-bus1919

mammy wagon1957

postbus1957

mammy lorry1959

jeepney1961

danfo1973

transbus1973

molue1976

bendy bus1978

daladala1983

1959 Listener 31 Dec. 1156/2 The car-park [in Ghana] with its taxis and mammy-lorries.

1976 B. Emecheta Bride Price (1978) iv. 58 The mammy-lorry groaned..coughed out loud smoke, started to move jerkily.

mammy trader n.

Brit.

/ˈmamɪ ˌtreɪdə/

U.S.

/ˈmæmi ˌtreɪdər/

West African English

/ˌmami ˈtreda/

a woman market-trader in West Africa.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > selling > seller > [noun] > stall-keeper > at a market > African woman

mammy trader1959

market mammy1962

1959 Times 9 Nov. (Ghana Suppl.) p. iv/7 Coordination of the activities of the vigorous ‘mammy’ traders.

1971 Reader's Digest (U.S. ed.) Oct. 30/1 [In Jiddah] West African ‘mammy traders’ hawk cocoa beans, salves for arthritis and gaily colored cloth.

mammy wagon n.

Brit.

/ˈmamɪ ˌwaɡ(ə)n/

U.S.

/ˈmæmi ˌwæɡən/

West African English

/ˌmami ˈwaˌɡɔn/

a small open-sided vehicle in West Africa.

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > public service vehicle > [noun] > omnibus > motor-driven > other types

wagonette omnibus1903

jitney bus1914

lorry-bus1919

mammy wagon1957

postbus1957

mammy lorry1959

jeepney1961

danfo1973

transbus1973

molue1976

bendy bus1978

daladala1983

1957 Times 17 Dec. 9/6 As we drove on to the ferry a ‘mammy-waggon’ full of them [sc. Ghanaian students] was pushed on behind us.

1961 Listener 2 Nov. 697/1 The mammy-wagons are the friendly little open-sided buses which ply, always crowded, between towns and villages, and which have their names painted in bright colours.

1965 W. Soyinka Road 19 Goes into the mammy-waggon stall through hidden entrance up-stage.

1987 N. Gordimer Sport of Nature 197 She jostled between the mammy wagons and the street vendors' jingling dinner bells.

C2.

mammy-sick adj. freq. depreciative distressed at being separated from (one's) mother.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > suffering > sorrow or grief > sorrow caused by loss > [adjective] > distressed at separation from mother

mammy-sick1826

1826 B. Disraeli Vivian Grey I. i. iii. 14 ‘Mammy-sick!’ growled Barlow primus.

1848 B. D. Walsh tr. Aristophanes Clouds iii. iii The town Will pronounce you a mammy-sick coddle.

1885 J. C. Jeaffreson Real Shelley I. 51 A shy..mammy-sick lad.

C3. (In sense 3). attributive, as mammy number, mammy song, etc. Denoting a sentimental popular song of a type supposedly reminiscent of those sung by black women in the southern United States.The songs, particularly in vogue among (often blackface) American music-hall performers during the 1910s and 1920s, are probably so named because many featured ‘mammy’ in their title, most notably ‘My Mammy’ (1918) by Irving Caesar and Walter Donaldson, popularized by Al Jolson.

ΚΠ

1923 B. James (title of song) Carolina Mammy. A real Southern mammy song—the crooning kind.

1926 E. O'Neill Great God Brown (1967) i. iii. 39 The player-piano is groggily banging out a sentimental medley of ‘Mother–Mammy’ tunes.

1931 A. Huxley Music at Night i. 24 This great obvious truth is affirmed in a nauseatingly treacly mammy-song.

1946 M. Mezzrow & B. Wolfe Really Blues ix. 146 Blackface routines and corny coonshouting and mammy numbers.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	mammy
释义	mammyn.int. Brit. /ˈmami/, U.S. /ˈmæmi/ Forms: 1500s– mammie, 1500s– mammy; Scottish pre-1700 mamay, pre-1700 mame, pre-1700 mamye, pre-1700 mannie, pre-1700 mawmy, pre-1700 1700s mamie, pre-1700 1700s– mammie, 1700s– mammy, 1800s– maamie, 1900s– mami (Shetland); U.S. regional (southern) 1800s maumie. Also with capital initial. Origin: Probably a variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymons: mama n.¹, mama n.¹ Etymology: Probably either < mam n.¹ or < mama n.¹, with ending remodelled after -y suffix⁶ (although both mam n.¹ and mama n.¹ are first attested slightly later). Compare daddy n.Many of the compounds at Compounds 1 reflect the West African English use of mammy or mamma as a word for any woman (compare Krio mami). The mammy chair was presumably developed for the use of women traders boarding foreign ships, and the mammy wagon is characteristically occupied by women marketing or transporting goods. colloquial and regional. 1. a. One's mother; a mother.Mammy occurs most commonly in children's language. It is chiefly used as a form of address, or preceded by a possessive (as ‘my mammy’); it is also used without possessive (e.g., in quot. 2009) in the manner of a proper name. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > parent > mother > [noun] mothereOE dame?c1225 merea1275 childbearera1382 genitricea1500 mammy1523 dama1547 mama1555 genetrix1561 mam1570 mum?1595 old lady1599 authoressc1603 mam1608 genitress1610 old woman1668 old girl1745 mummy1768 momma1810 madre1815 maw1826 ma1829 marm1835 mater1843 mom1846 mommy1846 maternal1867 motherkins1870 muvver1871 mumsy1876 mamacita1887 mutti1905 birth mother1906 duchess1909 amma1913 momsey1914 mums1915 moms1925 mata1945 baby-mother1966 mama1982 old dear1985 baby-mama1986 1523 J. Skelton Goodly Garlande of Laurell 974 Your mammy and your dady Brought forth a godely babi! 1560 Nice Wanton (Manly) 452 All this our Mammy would take in good worth. 1562 T. Phaer tr. Virgil Æneid viii. Z iij b Their mammies teats they lap with hungry lipps. 1666 in J. Forbes Cantus (ed. 2) xlix Will said to his mammie that he would go woo. 1719 in T. D'Urfey Wit & Mirth V. 18 She'll be a Mammy before it is long. 1773 F. Burney Early Jrnls. & Lett. (1988) I. 320 I..proceed to be sorry & glad, that You & your Mammy have been ill, & are better. 1793 R. Burns Poems & Songs (1968) II. 694 And ay she wrought her Mammie's wark, And ay she sang sae merrilie. 1842 S. Lover Handy Andy i Andy grew up in mischief and the admiration of his mammy. 1886 J. Burgess Sketches 3 Rin dee wis oot, jewel, an' bring maamie in twartree paets. 1892 J. Barlow Bogland Stud. (1893) 91 Often afore it died Did be askin' its mammy for bread. 1893 C. M. Yonge Treasures in Marshes ii. 13 What shall we do with it, mammie? 1940 B. L. Burman Big River to Cross ii. 48 Twice every year he used to go back to Greenville, and give his mammy and pappy all the gold money they could carry. 1959 I. Opie & P. Opie Lore & Lang. Schoolchildren ii. 26 Ye cannae shove yer grannie For she's yer mammie's mammie. 1990 Times 14 May 17/7 Some of the men of west Scotland have a long way to go... Their mammies..will wait upon them until the day they marry. 2009 E. Thom Tin-kin 27 Dawn's baby sister Linda was a good girl, Mammy always said. A wee lamb that turned folks' heads. b. U.S. colloquial. As int. As an exclamation expressing surprise or pleasure. ΚΠ 1942 L. V. Berrey & M. Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang §277/7 Interj. of pleasure... Mamma! Mammy!.. Oh mama! Oh mammy. 1967 in Dict. Amer. Regional Eng. (1996) III. 490/2 s.v. Mamma,..also mammy and in var. phrr: Used as an exclamation of surprise or pleasure... Gee mammy. 2. Scottish. A wet nurse; a foster mother. Now rare (Shetland in later use). Perhaps Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > parent > mother > [noun] > foster-mother foster-mother?a1000 nursing mother1535 nurse-mother1579 fostress1603 foster-nurse1607 mammy1618 1618 in W. Fraser Memorials Montgomeries (1859) I. 207 As concerning your dochter Elinor, I am verye glaid that ye haue gottin ane young milk woman to hir, seing hir mamye proued not sufficient. 1638 Ld. Wariston Diary (1911) I. 293 Lisbie James his mammie haiving committed theft and drunkennes..my wife..put hir to the yett. 1696 in A. W. C. Hallen Acct. Bk. Sir J. Foulis (1894) 190 To my soine Sandies mamie in charitie. 1768 A. Ross Fortunate Shepherdess ii. 88 An' did him to the glens directly hy, Where his auld mammy kept his store an' ky, Blyth was the wife her foster son to see. 1866 T. Edmondston Etymol. Gloss. Shetland & Orkney Dial. 69 Maamie, a wet-nurse. 1932 A. Horsbøl tr. J. Jakobsen Etymol. Dict. Norn Lang. in Shetland II. 538/1 Mami, a wet-nurse; a woman acting as a mother to the children in the mother's absence. 3. In the southern United States, esp. before the abolition of slavery: a black woman with responsibility for the care of white children.Now regarded as derogatory, but not necessarily so in the past. ΘΚΠ society > education > upbringing > [noun] > one who brings up > nurse nouricec1225 nursea1325 rockera1325 nourish1340 nursha1382 nursery nurse1494 nutrice1529 nurse-girl1596 dry-nursea1616 nursey1760 bonne1771 ayah1782 nanny1785 momma1803 nursery girla1812 mammy1837 nanac1844 day nurse1855 caretaker1858 nursekin1862 Norland1894 nounou1894 nurselet1894 Plunket1909 metapelet1950 1837 Southern Literary Messenger 3 744/1 [Aged Negro domestics] were greeted always by the kind appellatives of ‘daddy and mammy’. 1859 J. R. Bartlett Dict. Americanisms (ed. 2) Mammy, the term of endearment used by white children to their negro nurses and to old family servants. 1881 Harper's Mag. Apr. 737/2 Maumie, how I should like to see a Hoodoo meeting! 1887 T. N. Page In Ole Virginia (1893) 164 The old mammies and uncles who were our companions and comrades. 1901 R. D. Evans Sailor's Log i. 3 Like most Southern children, I was brought up and cared for by a ‘black mammy’. 1948 Chicago Daily News 23 Feb. 12/7 Mammy's little baby is a-wearying of short'nin' bread. 1966 K. L. Morgan in A. Dundes Mother Wit (1973) 600/1 Hattie McDaniel and Louise Beavers, the perennial maids and mammies of the movies, were the female stars of the day. 1988 S. Tucker Memories Southern Women Pref. 5 I recognized in such portrayals not only the stereotypical mammy figure but also other stereotypes of female behavior. Compounds C1. In West African English usage. mammy boat n. = mammy chair n. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > other equipment of vessel > [noun] > basket or chair to convey person to onto boats mammy chair1904 mammy boat1928 1928 Daily Express 27 Jan. 6/3 A ‘mammy’ boat, which is simply a wicker basket with seats, is slung over the ship's side by crane. mammy chair n. a (wicker) basket or chair used on ships for conveying persons to and from surf-boats. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > other equipment of vessel > [noun] > basket or chair to convey person to onto boats mammy chair1904 mammy boat1928 1904 Chambers's Jrnl. 3 Dec. 15/1 You may elect to travel over the side in the ‘mammy-chair’, a huge barrel with part of its side cut away slung in the air by the steam-winch. 1909 D. Moore & F. G. Guggisberg We Two in W. Afr. 16 So I found myself sitting in the ‘Mammy chair’, an ordinary basket-chair with ropes slung to the arms and back,..and in a moment I was whisked off the deck, swung over the side at the end of a long derrick, [etc.]. 1920 Blackwood's Mag. June 848/1 A mammy chair was lowered, and we made the usual undignified ascent to the main deck. 1935 L. G. Green Great Afr. Myst. xv. 192 The ‘mammy-chair’ is like a swingboat at a fair; just a wooden box with two seats facing each other. mammy-cloth n. a cotton cloth or robe worn wrapped around the body. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [noun] > loose clothing > robe or gown > types of > other stolec950 paramentc1385 stolea1387 vestmentc1386 chimer1487 shemewe1517 parliament1537 Turkey gown1558 slop1570 blue gown1578 dolman1585 palliament1593 synthesis1606 vest1613 paramentoa1640 brandenburgh1676 khilat1684 spagnoleta1685 sultanea1685 sultana1693 garter-robes1702 under-robe1725 wrapper1725 stola1728 talar1738 negligée1755 jama1776 dust-gown1802 yukata1822 manga1824 gandoura1851 pheran1851 riga1851 shamma1862 choga1869 kanzu1870 kimono1886 holoku1893 mammy-cloth1952 1952 Chambers's Jrnl. May 314/1 Their mothers wore dark-coloured mammy-cloths, with designs of playing-cards or elephants and palm-trees, all stamped ‘Made in Manchester’. 1961 G. Greene Burnt-out Case 1. i. 7 When there were no European visitors there were always the old women,..their bodies wrapped in mammy-cloths. 1970 P. Oliver Savannah Syncopators 59 (caption) Hausa women... One wears a ‘mammy-cloth’ printed with portraits of Queen Elizabeth the Second and Prince Philip. 1971 A. Bailey In Village (1972) vii. 56 One man I knew used to dress in the evenings in a mammy cloth, the colorful cotton robe the Africans swaddled themselves in. mammy lorry n. = mammy wagon n. ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > public service vehicle > [noun] > omnibus > motor-driven > other types wagonette omnibus1903 jitney bus1914 lorry-bus1919 mammy wagon1957 postbus1957 mammy lorry1959 jeepney1961 danfo1973 transbus1973 molue1976 bendy bus1978 daladala1983 1959 Listener 31 Dec. 1156/2 The car-park [in Ghana] with its taxis and mammy-lorries. 1976 B. Emecheta Bride Price (1978) iv. 58 The mammy-lorry groaned..coughed out loud smoke, started to move jerkily. mammy trader n. Brit. /ˈmamɪ ˌtreɪdə/ , U.S. /ˈmæmi ˌtreɪdər/ , West African English /ˌmami ˈtreda/ a woman market-trader in West Africa. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > selling > seller > [noun] > stall-keeper > at a market > African woman mammy trader1959 market mammy1962 1959 Times 9 Nov. (Ghana Suppl.) p. iv/7 Coordination of the activities of the vigorous ‘mammy’ traders. 1971 Reader's Digest (U.S. ed.) Oct. 30/1 [In Jiddah] West African ‘mammy traders’ hawk cocoa beans, salves for arthritis and gaily colored cloth. mammy wagon n. Brit. /ˈmamɪ ˌwaɡ(ə)n/ , U.S. /ˈmæmi ˌwæɡən/ , West African English /ˌmami ˈwaˌɡɔn/ a small open-sided vehicle in West Africa. ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > public service vehicle > [noun] > omnibus > motor-driven > other types wagonette omnibus1903 jitney bus1914 lorry-bus1919 mammy wagon1957 postbus1957 mammy lorry1959 jeepney1961 danfo1973 transbus1973 molue1976 bendy bus1978 daladala1983 1957 Times 17 Dec. 9/6 As we drove on to the ferry a ‘mammy-waggon’ full of them [sc. Ghanaian students] was pushed on behind us. 1961 Listener 2 Nov. 697/1 The mammy-wagons are the friendly little open-sided buses which ply, always crowded, between towns and villages, and which have their names painted in bright colours. 1965 W. Soyinka Road 19 Goes into the mammy-waggon stall through hidden entrance up-stage. 1987 N. Gordimer Sport of Nature 197 She jostled between the mammy wagons and the street vendors' jingling dinner bells. C2. mammy-sick adj. freq. depreciative distressed at being separated from (one's) mother. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > sorrow or grief > sorrow caused by loss > [adjective] > distressed at separation from mother mammy-sick1826 1826 B. Disraeli Vivian Grey I. i. iii. 14 ‘Mammy-sick!’ growled Barlow primus. 1848 B. D. Walsh tr. Aristophanes Clouds iii. iii The town Will pronounce you a mammy-sick coddle. 1885 J. C. Jeaffreson Real Shelley I. 51 A shy..mammy-sick lad. C3. (In sense 3). attributive, as mammy number, mammy song, etc. Denoting a sentimental popular song of a type supposedly reminiscent of those sung by black women in the southern United States.The songs, particularly in vogue among (often blackface) American music-hall performers during the 1910s and 1920s, are probably so named because many featured ‘mammy’ in their title, most notably ‘My Mammy’ (1918) by Irving Caesar and Walter Donaldson, popularized by Al Jolson. ΚΠ 1923 B. James (title of song) Carolina Mammy. A real Southern mammy song—the crooning kind. 1926 E. O'Neill Great God Brown (1967) i. iii. 39 The player-piano is groggily banging out a sentimental medley of ‘Mother–Mammy’ tunes. 1931 A. Huxley Music at Night i. 24 This great obvious truth is affirmed in a nauseatingly treacly mammy-song. 1946 M. Mezzrow & B. Wolfe Really Blues ix. 146 Blackface routines and corny coonshouting and mammy numbers. 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