Mammygate

name, slang

name, slang ·Uncommon ·College level

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A 2008 controversy around the allegation that Gloria Squitiro, wife of Kansas City mayor Mark Funkhouser, called a black secretary "mammy". informal

Etymology

From mammy + -gate.

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kansas city

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