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{
"ref": "1979, Octavia Butler, Kindred",
"text": "That's what you for—to help white folks keep niggers down. That's why he sent you to me. They be calling you mammy in a few years. You be running the whole house when the old man dies."
}
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"In the southern United States, a black nanny employed to look after white children; or in the antebellum South, a female slave who was close to the household and looked after the children."
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"sense": "child's name for mother",
"word": "maman"
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"word": "Mami"
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"code": "he",
"lang": "Hebrew",
"sense": "child's name for mother",
"word": "אמא"
},
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"sense": "child's name for mother",
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],
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"word": "mamá"
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],
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{
"word": "mammy wagon"
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"mamma; mother"
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"ref": "1979, Octavia Butler, Kindred",
"text": "That's what you for—to help white folks keep niggers down. That's why he sent you to me. They be calling you mammy in a few years. You be running the whole house when the old man dies."
}
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"In the southern United States, a black nanny employed to look after white children; or in the antebellum South, a female slave who was close to the household and looked after the children."
],
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"United States",
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"black",
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"nanny",
"nanny"
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"white",
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],
[
"antebellum",
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"slave",
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"(US, historical, often pejorative) In the southern United States, a black nanny employed to look after white children; or in the antebellum South, a female slave who was close to the household and looked after the children."
],
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"US",
"historical",
"often",
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]
}
],
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}
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"sense": "child's name for mother",
"word": "maman"
},
{
"code": "de",
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"sense": "child's name for mother",
"word": "Mami"
},
{
"code": "de",
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"sense": "child's name for mother",
"word": "Mama."
},
{
"code": "he",
"lang": "Hebrew",
"sense": "child's name for mother",
"word": "אמא"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "child's name for mother",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "mamãe"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "child's name for mother",
"word": "mamá"
},
{
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"word": "mami."
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"Alternative spelling of mamie"
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