mammy

 Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++

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mam·my /ˈmæmi/ noun (plural mammies) [countable]  SSFMOTHERmother – used especially in Ireland 妈妈〔尤用于爱尔兰〕

Examples from the Corpus

mammy• He would get himself a job, and he would be the man his mammy had always hoped he would be.• But me mammy talked this way and I've kept it on.• Back home, a traveller is always taken in, or so me mammy used to say.• Me own mammy passed away with the consumption, then Oonagh disappeared.• Find out from your mammy, then come to me.• Your mammy here had to go in there in the morning and speak nice to him.Origin mammy (1500-1600) mama

mam·my nounChineseSyllable  

Ireland mother in used Corpus – especially

mammy
mam‧my /ˈmæmi/ noun (plural mammies) [countable]mother – used especially in Ireland

mammyBrE /ˈmæmi/ 🔊NAmE /ˈmæmi/ 🔊 noun (

plural

mammies) (dialect, informal) mother 妈；妈妈an offensive word used in the past in the southern states of the US for a black woman who cared for a white family's children 黑人保姆（旧时美国南方各州对照看白人孩子的黑人女子的贬称）