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Devo - Gut Feeling/(Slap Your Mammy) Laps with Casual Swim | W(h)AT with Boss 2026-05-06 22:42 NZST
I’m almost Scottish- I have an Irish passport. (Thank you Mammy and Daddy)
Omg that was one icy wind on the cycle home.. and rumours of a frosty night... no wonder me mammy always said never shed a colour till May (sometimes Whit) is out...
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(childish) mamma; mother.
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(US, historical, often, pejorative) In the southern United States, a black nanny employed to look after white children; or in the antebellum South, a female slave who was close to the household and looked after the children.
: That's what you for—to help white folks keep niggers down. That's why he sent you to me. They be calling you mammy in a few years. You be running the whole house when the old man dies.
“Devo - Gut Feeling/(Slap Your Mammy) Laps with Casual Swim | W(h)AT with Boss 2026-05-06 22:42 NZST”
— Bluesky· May 2026
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