Aunt jemima
Slang: Disparaging and Offensive. a black woman considered by other black people to be subservient to or to curry favor with whites.
Historical Examples
“Unless she were to take Inmates, you know,” said Aunt Jemima, in a sepulchral voice.
Miss Marjoribanks Mrs (Margaret) Oliphant
Aunt Jemima was to go ahead and see that these preparations were carried out.
Kennedy Square F. Hopkinson Smith
Aunt Jemima watched him in grim silence to the foot of the stairs.
The Golden Shoemaker J. W. Keyworth
Aunt Jemima, for her part, lingered a little with Lucilla downstairs.
Miss Marjoribanks Mrs (Margaret) Oliphant
Dey wants a li’l’ trimmin’ roun’ de aidges, but I reckon we kin make ’em do—Aunt Jemima sont ’em home dis mawnin’.
Kennedy Square F. Hopkinson Smith
Aunt Jemima, you’re so provoking that I sometimes think I shall have to leave you.
Marion Fay Anthony Trollope
Upon which Lucilla rose and kissed Aunt Jemima, though her head was all confused and she had noises in her ears.
Miss Marjoribanks Mrs (Margaret) Oliphant
Mr. Greenbank is the only person who has asked me, and Aunt Jemima says no one else ever will!
The Man and the Moment Elinor Glyn
And here everything came to a halt and all the troops were sent back to the barracks—(Aunt Jemima will do for the barracks).
Kennedy Square F. Hopkinson Smith
So he took a seat on a barrel-head and began to scrub it off; but he found it something like Aunt Jemima’s plaster.
The Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe Amanda Minnie Douglas
noun
the world’s first living trademark, Nancy Green, who demonstrated the ready-mixed, self-rising pancake flour created in 1889.
Examples
In the image of “Aunt Jemima,” the Nancy Green legend lives on.
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