What's the difference between mammy and mom?

Mammy


Definition:

  • (n.) A child's name for mamma, mother.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He went from minstrel show to blackface, from vaudeville to Broadway before he hit a fabulous prosperity as the most sentimental of all sentimental singers, a poor Russian cantor's son daubed with burnt cork and down on one knee sobbing for the "mammy" he had never known in a south that nobody ever knew.
  • (2) Mammies are never sexual, poorly educated, and full of earthy common sense.
  • (3) A previous, tentative assignment based solely on indirect evidence [Mammi, S., Mammi, N. J.
  • (4) In the preceding paper [Bairaktari, E., Mierke, D.F., Mammi, S., & Peggion, E. (1990) Biochemistry (preceding paper in this issue)] the conformational preferences of these peptides in the presence of SDS surfactant micelles, a mimetic for biological membranes, were examined.
  • (5) The circular dichroism spectra in these two media have the same shape, indicative of a similar preferred conformation [Mammi, S., Mammi, N. J., Foffani, M. T., Peggion, E., Moroder, L., & Wünsch, E. (1987) Biopolymers 26, S1-S10].
  • (6) Mammy Facebook Twitter Pinterest Happily serving a white family: Hattie McDaniel in Gone with the Wind.
  • (7) Flannel and felt mammy dolls at a booth nearby were priced $900.
  • (8) Gone is the general disdain for mammy cookie jars, Aunt Jemima dolls and pencils in the form of alligators eating black children - a motif used to promote the early tourist trade in Florida.
  • (9) These household objects "didn't really become a souvenir market until the late 20th century," according to Kenneth W Goings, a professor at Memphis University and author of Mammy and Uncle Mose: Black Collectibles and American Stereotyping.
  • (10) Yet another common product is the mammy peg-board - a wall board with a picture of a mammy, hand to her head, announcing "I gots to Git" and the pegs indicating which groceries need to be bought.
  • (11) He went down on his knee again and sang "mammy" and the troops wept and cheered.
  • (12) Bidding on a mammy memo-holder, a large board with a picture of a mammy holding a pencil, with a memo-pad apron, had risen to $14.
  • (13) The image of Aunt Jemima, the elephantine mammy figure whose image was emblazoned on a pancake mix, seems to be the most frequently reproduced icon.

Mom


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Shannon Watts, founder of Moms Demand Action, welcomed Target’s shift in policy.
  • (2) This modification of DNA is controlled by the Mu modification function (mom), which acts in conjunction with the dam (DNA-adenine methylation) function of Escherichia coli.
  • (3) A ngelina Jolie sends young women all sorts of messages: that you can both be a mom and successful businesswoman, that it’s important to take a stand on issues you care about, and that making a healthy choice “in no way diminishes [your] femininity”.
  • (4) Findings are surprising in that the SES was more actively involved in all forms of OM than had been thought, especially in MOM and COM.
  • (5) I was crying ‘ I don’t want to walk, Mom.’ And so she carried me,” said Maria, now 29.
  • (6) When my mom found crack, that’s when the walls started coming in on me.
  • (7) And that’s the thing about substance abuse – it doesn’t discriminate.” Authorities report 74 heroin overdoses in three days in Chicago Read more “It touches everybody, from celebrities to college students to soccer moms to inner-city kids – white, black, Hispanic, young, old, rich, poor, urban, suburban, men and women.” Among the Obama administration’s proposals were to improve training among prescribers for opiate painkillers and to expand access to medication-assisted treatment.
  • (8) In those pregnancies uncomplicated by either fetal exomphalos or neural tube defect the midtrimester maternal serum alpha-fetoprotein (MSAFP) levels were markedly reduced, the median value for 38 such pregnancies being 0.6 multiples of the median (MoM).
  • (9) Insept Mom" (a notice attached to her five-year-old grandson's door), a short inventory of clubs she'd encountered that wouldn't allow girls or women.
  • (10) "My mom had just died, which had been incredibly traumatic," Mills recalls, "and a few months later, my dad said to me: 'Tomorrow I'm going to throw you a ball and I want you to catch it.'
  • (11) "We are grateful for what he and my mom have done for us," Rafael says.
  • (12) According to her, she is just a mom – a mom forced to defend the decision to save her daughter’s life.
  • (13) Such imaginary groups, when compared to the sum as a whole, are about as worrisome as America's hockey moms turned out to be.
  • (14) If anything, the danger to Trump’s ambitions is coming from inside the house, with his frothingly deranged spokesperson Michael Cohen, a man 30 years out-of-date on spousal rape laws who sounds like a Queens mook in a tracksuit who traps a mom in her car in the Stop & Shop parking lot because he thinks she took his space, beats on the hood and screams, Do you know who my uncle is?
  • (15) Whether he was helping a mom with a carriage or bringing someone to their seats, he did it with so much love and so much vigor and so much joy,” Castillo said.
  • (16) AFP base and limiting values (2.5 MoM and 0.5 MoM) are found.
  • (17) A bit like Godfather II, only with mom's apple pie for tea.
  • (18) "They are the ones who sign my cheque Mom, they are the ones who help me support my family."
  • (19) Michelle Obama, once a distinguished lawyer, calls herself a "mom-in-chief" and does not shy away from schmaltz.
  • (20) The good news for Tigers fans is that they are out of that big hot mess of a ballpark and are back home in the Motor City, where mom makes porridge for breakfast and everybody is nice.

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