mammy

英 [ˈmæmi]

美 [ˈmæmi]

n.  妈; 妈妈; 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)

复数：mammies　

BNC.28380 / COCA.26273

牛津词典

noun

• 妈；妈妈
  mother
• 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）
  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

柯林斯词典

• (英国某些地区的方言)妈妈
  In some dialects of English,mammyis used to mean mother.

英英释义

noun

• informal terms for a mother
  Synonym:mamamamammamommommamommymummummy
• an offensive term for a Black nursemaid in the southern U.S.

双语例句

• She's my Mammy. She's a nurse.
  她是我的妈妈。她是个护士。
• He's my Dady. She's my Mammy.
  他是我的爸爸。她是我的妈妈。
• Mammy used to hold her over my head whenever I was naughty.
  以前我只要一淘气，嬷嬷就拿她来警戒我。
• She had been Ellen's mammy and had come with her from Savannah to the up-country when she married.
  她曾经做过爱伦的嬷嬷，后来爱伦结婚时跟着她从萨凡纳来到了内地。
• The trees were killed off by the severe winter. He came out of his mammy in a field hand's cabin one sharp winter.
  严冬把树木一棵一棵地都冻死了。一个严寒的冬天，他的妈妈在一个干农活的黑奴住的小屋里，生下了他。
• With daddy and mammy standing by. don't cry.
  在爸爸和妈妈陪着你时。
• What's a good choice, mammy!
  这是个多好的选择呀，妈咪！
• Hey, you go to school for your mammy.
  喂，你要为妈咪去上学。
• Mammy threw me out, I'm afraid.
  恐怕妈妈把我赶出来了。
• And Mammy was hardly polite to him.
  而嬷嬷对他却不怎么客气。