Crossword-Solution: MAMMY
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Mammy | n. | A child's name for mamma, mother. |
We have 25 clues for the answer “MAMMY”
| Clue | Answers |
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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
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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.
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.
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.
But at the moment, Hilda again exclaimed: “Mammy, I'm hungry.” With a movement of infinite lassitude and resigned acceptance of the situation, Mrs.
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.
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 …
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…
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.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY.
Used 18 times in crossword archives (1962–2015).