Crossword-Solution: MAMMY 5 letters, 25 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 14

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Mammy n. A child's name for mamma, mother.

We have 25 clues for the answer “MAMMY”

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Al Jolson's love 1 answer
coloured nurse 1 answer
Yokum matriarch 1 answer
Title woman in a Jolson classic 1 answer
Scarlett O'Hara's housemaid 1 answer
Pappy Yokum's mate 1 answer
Oscar-winning role for Hattie McDaniel 1 answer
Jolson song subject 1 answer
Jolson encore. 1 answer
Famous Jolson song. 1 answer
Black woman employed as a nurse or servant to a White family 1 answer
Al Capp's Pansy Yokum 1 answer
1930 Al Jolson film 1 answer
"I'd walk a million miles for one of your smiles" object 1 answer
Jolson number 2 answers
Jolson song. 2 answers
A Yokum 3 answers
One of the Yokums 4 answers
CAPP, AL ADJECTIVE 10 answers
AN OFFENSIVE TERM FOR A BLACK NURSEMAID IN THE SOUTHERN U.S. 11 answers
BLACK person 14 answers
DARK-skinned person 15 answers
Nanny 31 answers
Nursemaid 64 answers
Nurse 79 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TREAE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with MAMMY (5)

The moon rays, streaming in through the open door and windows, gave what light was needed to the old black mammy who stood at the table concocting a tisane of fragrant herbs.
The Awakening and Selected Short Stories Kate Chopin 1994
Amidst the wild screams of the children—“_Let my mammy go”—“let my mammy go_”—there escaped, from between the teeth of the bullet-headed overseer, a few bitter curses, mingled with threats, that “he would teach the d—d b—h how to give a white man impudence.” There is no doubt that Nelly felt herself superior, in some respects, to the slaves around her.
My Bondage and My Freedom Frederick Douglass 1995
Tenie had got de night sot fer her en Sandy ter run away, w'en dat ve'y day one er Mars Marrabo's sons rid up ter de big house in his buggy, en say his wife wuz monst'us sick, en he want his mammy ter len' 'im a 'ooman fer ter nuss his wife.
The Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, 1995, Memorial Issue Various 2008
But at the moment, Hilda again exclaimed: “Mammy, I'm hungry.” With a movement of infinite lassitude and resigned acceptance of the situation, Mrs.
The Octopus Frank Norris 2008
Always the oldest and strongest climbed on top of the youngest and fooled his mammy into feeding him most by having his head highest, his mouth widest, and begging loudest.
Laddie Gene Stratton-Porter 2008

Quotes with MAMMY (3)

I moved silently across the garden, silvered with moonlight, my feet barely touching the ground. I brushed past fern and tree, following the lights across the stream, toward the cottage in the clearing where I watched a little girl surrounded by light and laughter as the fairies threaded flowers through her hair. I stood out of sight, peering through the tangled blackberry bushes, but the girl saw me, rushing forward, her hand outstretched, a white flower clasped between her …
Hazel Gaynor The Cottingley Secret
Something refused to come into focus in my thinking. Indistinctly, as though in a fog, shapes moved toward me and retreated just beyond cognition. But that getting a hold of things is the uncertainty. As the Tractatus says right at the beginning, “The world is everything that is the case.” It seemed as though the Mammy≈Divas® were just like Steve Jobs, trying to have reality bent to their own wills. Objectively, the iPhone was a muddle of mysticism and logic — breakable glass…
Jon Woodson
Mammy was soon asleep, leaving Laila with dueling emotions: reassured that Mammy meant to live on, stung that she was not the reason. She would never leave her mark on Mammy's heart the way her brothers had, because Mammy's heart was like a pallid beach where Laila's footprints would forever wash away beneath the waves of sorrow that swelled and crashed, swelled and crashed.
Khaled Hosseini A Thousand Splendid Suns
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Appears in: Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY.

Used 18 times in crossword archives (1962–2015).