mammonize (mamoniz)

t.; pret. and pp. mammon i zed, ppr. mammon i zing. [ mammie; dim. of mama.] Mother; mama: a childish word. An' aye she wrought her mammie's wark, An' aye she sang sae merrilie. Burns, There was a La . See mummychog . Hence-2. In the southern United States, especially during the existence of slavery, a colored female nurse; a colored woman having the care of white children, who often continue to call her mammy after they are grown up. mammychug, n. mamoodi (mä-mö'dē), n. [ To him [a Hindu] all this outcry is but mamoul - usage, custom-and mamoul is to him as air. J. W. Palmer, The New and the Old, p. 284. mampalon (mam'pa-lon), n. [Native name (?).] An aquatic otter-like viverrine quadruped, Cy nogale bennett i of Borneo, with webbed plantigrade feet, short stout cylindric tail, and broad tumid muzzle with long stiff whiskers. The animal is about 18 inches long, and represents in the family Viverridæ the same modification in adaptation to aquatic life that the otter shows in the family Must elide. Also written mampelon.