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market mammy
market mammy n.
Brit. 
/ˈmɑːkɪt ˌmami/
, /ˈmɑːkɪt ˌmami/U.S. /ˈmɑrkət ˌmæmi/
, /ˈmɑrkət ˌmæmi/West African English /ˈmakɛt ˌmami/
colloquial (chiefly West African freq. derogatory) a woman stallholder./ˈmakɛt ˌmami/ΘΚΠ
society > trade and finance > selling > seller > [noun] > stall-keeper > at a market > African woman
mammy trader1959
market mammy1962
1962 ‘A. Lejeune’ Duel in Shadows vii. 91 There were two Africans, a small man..and his wife, fat as a Market Mammy.
1972 Daily Tel. 21 Jan. 4/3 About 7,000 white-clad market mammies—women stallholders—with drummers and horn blowers yesterday demonstrated through Accra in support of last week's military coup against the Busia regime.
1995 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 12 Jan. 29/1 These ‘market mammies’, often illiterate, keep thousands of dollars worth of business in their heads.
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as lemmas
- to have one's hand in
- to have one's hand in the till
- to have one's hand on another halfpenny
- to have one's hand on one's halfpenny
- to have one's hands free
- to have one's hands full
- to have one's hat chalked
- to have one's head in the clouds
- to have one's head screwed on right
- to have one's head screwed on the right way
- to come to good pass
- to come to grapnel
- to come to grasp
- to come to grief
- to come to gripes
- to come to grips
- to come to hand
- to come to hand blows
- to come to handgrips
- to come to handicuffs
- to come to hands
- to come to handstrokes
- to come to handy blows
- to come to heel
- to come to knowledge