Exact Match:
- mammy
- an offensive term for a Black nursemaid in the southern U.S.
Synonyms:
- amah,
- ayah,
- dam,
- dry nurse,
- foster mother,
- genetrix,
- ma,
- mam,
- mama,
- mater,
- materfamilias,
- maternal ancestor,
- matriarch,
- mom,
- mommy,
- mother,
- mummy,
- nanny,
- nurse,
- nursemaid,
- nurserymaid,
- old lady,
- old woman,
- sitter,
- stepmother,
- the old woman,
- wet nurse
Related Words:
- ma
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- mama
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- a name under which Ninkhursag was worshipped related words >
- stepmother
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- the wife of your father by a subsequent marriage related words >
- dry nurse
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- a nurse who cares for but does not suckle an infant related words >
- aliment,
- amah,
- ayah,
- breast-feed,
- care for,
- cherish,
- coddle,
- cosset,
- cradle,
- cultivate,
- fatten,
- fatten up,
- feed,
- fondle,
- force-feed,
- foster,
- lactate,
- lavish care on,
- mammy,
- mother,
- nanny,
- nourish,
- nurse,
- nursemaid,
- nurserymaid,
- nurture,
- nutrify,
- pamper,
- sitter,
- spoon-feed,
- stuff,
- suckle,
- sustain,
- wet nurse,
- wet-nurse
- wet nurse
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- a woman hired to suckle a child of someone else related words >
- aliment,
- amah,
- ayah,
- breast-feed,
- care for,
- cherish,
- coddle,
- cosset,
- cradle,
- cultivate,
- dry nurse,
- dry-nurse,
- fatten,
- fatten up,
- feed,
- fondle,
- force-feed,
- foster,
- lactate,
- lavish care on,
- mammy,
- mother,
- nanny,
- nourish,
- nurse,
- nursemaid,
- nurserymaid,
- nurture,
- nutrify,
- pamper,
- sitter,
- spoon-feed,
- stuff,
- suckle,
- sustain
- mum
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- secrecy; "mum's the word"
- failing to speak or communicate etc when expected to; "the witness remained silent" related words >
- anaudic,
- aphasic,
- aphonic,
- breathless,
- brief,
- brusque,
- close,
- close-tongued,
- closemouthed,
- concise,
- curt,
- dumb,
- dumbfounded,
- dumbstricken,
- dumbstruck,
- economical of words,
- inarticulate,
- indisposed to talk,
- laconic,
- ma,
- mam,
- mama,
- mammy,
- mater,
- mom,
- mommy,
- mummy,
- mute,
- old woman,
- quiet,
- short,
- silent,
- snug,
- sparing of words,
- speechless,
- stricken dumb,
- taciturn,
- terse,
- tight-lipped,
- tongue-tied,
- tongueless,
- unloquacious,
- untalkative,
- voiceless,
- word-bound,
- wordless
- nanny
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- female goat
- a woman who is the custodian of children related words >
- Partlet,
- amah,
- ayah,
- biddy,
- billy,
- billy goat,
- bitch,
- bossy,
- brood mare,
- buck,
- cow,
- doe,
- doeling,
- dry nurse,
- ewe,
- ewe lamb,
- filly,
- goat,
- guinea hen,
- gyp,
- he-goat,
- heifer,
- hen,
- hind,
- jenny,
- kid,
- lioness,
- mammy,
- mare,
- mountain goat,
- nanny goat,
- nurse,
- nursemaid,
- nurserymaid,
- peahen,
- roe,
- she-bear,
- she-goat,
- she-lion,
- sitter,
- slut,
- sow,
- tigress,
- vixen,
- wet nurse
- abigail,
- au pair girl,
- ayah,
- betweenmaid,
- biddy,
- chambermaid,
- chaperon,
- companion,
- cook,
- dry nurse,
- duenna,
- femme de chambre,
- fille de chambre,
- gentlewoman,
- girl,
- handmaid,
- handmaiden,
- hired girl,
- housemaid,
- kitchenmaid,
- lady-help,
- lady-in-waiting,
- live-in maid,
- live-out maid,
- maid,
- maidservant,
- mammy,
- nanny,
- nurse,
- nursemaid,
- nurserymaid,
- parlormaid,
- scullery maid,
- servant girl,
- servitress,
- sitter,
- soubrette,
- tweeny,
- upstairs maid,
- waiting maid,
- wench,
- wet nurse
- abigail,
- amah,
- au pair girl,
- ayah,
- betweenmaid,
- biddy,
- chambermaid,
- chaperon,
- companion,
- cook,
- dry nurse,
- duenna,
- femme de chambre,
- fille de chambre,
- gentlewoman,
- girl,
- governess,
- handmaid,
- handmaiden,
- hired girl,
- housemaid,
- kitchenmaid,
- lady-help,
- lady-in-waiting,
- live-in maid,
- live-out maid,
- maid,
- maidservant,
- mammy,
- nanny,
- nurse,
- nurserymaid,
- parlormaid,
- scullery maid,
- servant girl,
- servitress,
- sitter,
- soubrette,
- tweeny,
- upstairs maid,
- waiting maid,
- wench,
- wet nurse
- matriarch
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- a female head of a family or tribe
- a feisty older woman with a big bosom (as drawn in cartoons) related words >
- Methuselah,
- abbess,
- antediluvian,
- antique,
- back number,
- chatelaine,
- conservative,
- dad,
- dam,
- dame,
- dodo,
- dowager,
- elder,
- first lady,
- fogy,
- fossil,
- foster mother,
- fud,
- fuddy-duddy,
- genetrix,
- goodwife,
- governess,
- grande dame,
- granny,
- great lady,
- has-been,
- homemaker,
- housewife,
- longhair,
- ma,
- madam,
- mam,
- mama,
- mammy,
- mater,
- materfamilias,
- maternal ancestor,
- matron,
- mid-Victorian,
- mistress,
- mom,
- mommy,
- mossback,
- mother,
- mother superior,
- mummy,
- old believer,
- old crock,
- old dodo,
- old fogy,
- old liner,
- old man,
- old poop,
- old woman,
- old-timer,
- patriarch,
- pop,
- pops,
- reactionary,
- regular old fogy,
- relic,
- square,
- starets,
- stepmother,
- the old woman,
- traditionalist
- mummy
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- a body embalmed and dried and wrapped for burial (as in ancient Egypt) related words >
- ashes,
- biscuit,
- body,
- bone,
- bones,
- cadaver,
- carcass,
- carrion,
- clay,
- corpse,
- corpus delicti,
- cracker,
- crowbait,
- dam,
- dead body,
- dead man,
- dead person,
- decedent,
- dry bones,
- dry up,
- dust,
- earth,
- embalmed corpse,
- food for worms,
- foster mother,
- genetrix,
- late lamented,
- ma,
- mam,
- mama,
- mammy,
- mater,
- materfamilias,
- maternal ancestor,
- matriarch,
- mom,
- mommy,
- mortal remains,
- mother,
- mummification,
- mummify,
- old lady,
- organic remains,
- parchment,
- relics,
- reliquiae,
- remains,
- shrivel,
- skeleton,
- stepmother,
- stick,
- stiff,
- tenement of clay,
- the dead,
- the deceased,
- the defunct,
- the departed,
- the loved one,
- the old woman,
- welter,
- wilt,
- wizen
- nurse
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- one skilled in caring for young children or the sick (usually under the supervision of a physician)
- try to cure by special care of treatment, of an illness or injury; "He nursed his cold with Chinese herbs"
- treat carefully; "He nursed his injured back by lying in bed several hours every afternoon"; "He nursed the flowers in his garden and fertilized them regularly"
- serve as a nurse; care for sick or handicapped people related words >
- LPN,
- RN,
- advance,
- aliment,
- amah,
- apprentice,
- attend,
- attend to,
- ayah,
- baby,
- baby-sit,
- bandage,
- bathe,
- bear,
- bosom,
- break,
- break in,
- breast-feed,
- breed,
- bring up,
- care for,
- chaperon,
- charge nurse,
- cherish,
- cling to,
- clip,
- coddle,
- condition,
- conserve,
- cosset,
- cradle,
- cultivate,
- cure,
- develop,
- diagnose,
- discipline,
- district nurse,
- doctor,
- drill,
- dry nurse,
- dry-nurse,
- embosom,
- embrace,
- entertain,
- exercise,
- fatten,
- fatten up,
- feed,
- fetch up,
- fit,
- flux,
- fondle,
- force-feed,
- form,
- forward,
- foster,
- further,
- give care to,
- graduate nurse,
- groom,
- harbor,
- have,
- have and hold,
- heal,
- hold,
- hold on to,
- house-train,
- housebreak,
- hug,
- humor,
- improve,
- indulge,
- keep,
- keep alive,
- keep watch over,
- lactate,
- lavish care on,
- licensed practical nurse,
- lick into shape,
- look after,
- look out for,
- look to,
- mammy,
- massage,
- matronize,
- mind,
- minister to,
- mother,
- nanny,
- nourish,
- nursemaid,
- nurserymaid,
- nursing sister,
- nurture,
- nutrify,
- operate on,
- pamper,
- physic,
- plaster,
- poultice,
- practical nurse,
- practice,
- prepare,
- preserve,
- private-duty nurse,
- probationer,
- probationist,
- probe,
- promote,
- protege,
- provide for,
- public health nurse,
- purge,
- put in tune,
- put to school,
- raise,
- ready,
- rear,
- registered nurse,
- rehearse,
- remedy,
- ride herd on,
- rub,
- school nurse,
- scrub nurse,
- see after,
- see to,
- send to school,
- shepherd,
- sister,
- sitter,
- splint,
- spoon-feed,
- strap,
- student nurse,
- stuff,
- suckle,
- support,
- surgical nurse,
- sustain,
- take care of,
- take charge of,
- take in hand,
- tend,
- train,
- trained nurse,
- treasure,
- treasure up,
- treat,
- visiting nurse,
- wait on,
- watch,
- watch out for,
- watch over,
- wet nurse,
- wet-nurse
- dam
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- female parent of an animal especially domestic livestock
- a barrier constructed to contain the flow of water or to keep out the sea
- obstruct with, or as if with, a dam; "dam the gorges of the Yangtse River" related words >
- arch dam,
- arrest,
- artificial lake,
- backstop,
- bamboo curtain,
- bank,
- bar,
- barrage,
- barrier,
- bayou lake,
- bear-trap dam,
- beaver dam,
- bind,
- block,
- block up,
- blockade,
- boom,
- bottle up,
- brake,
- breakwater,
- breastwork,
- brick wall,
- bring to,
- bring up short,
- buffer,
- bulkhead,
- bulwark,
- bung,
- caulk,
- check,
- checkmate,
- chink,
- choke,
- choke off,
- choke up,
- cistern,
- clog,
- clog up,
- cofferdam,
- congest,
- constipate,
- cork,
- countercheck,
- cover,
- curb,
- cut short,
- dam up,
- damp,
- dampen,
- dead water,
- deadlock,
- defense,
- delay,
- detain,
- dike,
- ditch,
- draw rein,
- earthwork,
- embankment,
- etang,
- farm pond,
- fence,
- fill,
- fill up,
- fishpond,
- foster mother,
- foul,
- freeze,
- freshwater lake,
- gate,
- genetrix,
- glacial lake,
- gravity dam,
- groin,
- halt,
- hinder,
- hold back,
- hold in check,
- hold up,
- hydraulic-fill dam,
- impede,
- inhibit,
- inland sea,
- intercept,
- interfere,
- intermeddle,
- interrupt,
- intervene,
- iron curtain,
- jam,
- jetty,
- keep back,
- keep in check,
- lagoon,
- laguna,
- lake,
- lakelet,
- landlocked water,
- leaping weir,
- levee,
- linn,
- loch,
- logjam,
- lough,
- ma,
- mam,
- mama,
- mammy,
- mater,
- materfamilias,
- maternal ancestor,
- matriarch,
- meddle,
- mere,
- milldam,
- millpond,
- millpool,
- moat,
- mole,
- mom,
- mommy,
- mother,
- mound,
- mummy,
- nyanza,
- obstipate,
- obstruct,
- oppose,
- oxbow lake,
- pack,
- parapet,
- plash,
- plug,
- plug up,
- pond,
- pondlet,
- pool,
- portcullis,
- puddle,
- pull up,
- put paid to,
- rampart,
- repress,
- reservoir,
- resist,
- restrain,
- retard,
- roadblock,
- rock-fill dam,
- salina,
- salt pond,
- scotch,
- seawall,
- set back,
- shutter dam,
- slacken,
- snub,
- spile,
- stagnant water,
- stalemate,
- stall,
- stanch,
- standing water,
- stay,
- stem,
- stem the tide,
- stench,
- stepmother,
- still water,
- stone wall,
- stop,
- stop cold,
- stop dead,
- stop short,
- stop up,
- stopper,
- stopple,
- stuff,
- stuff up,
- sump,
- suppress,
- tank,
- tarn,
- the old woman,
- tidal pond,
- volcanic lake,
- wall,
- water hole,
- water pocket,
- weir,
- well,
- wicket dam,
- work
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