| 单词 | mammy number |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmammy number 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. < as lemmas |
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