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Mummy
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- 1 One's mother. childish, colloquial
- 1 An embalmed human or non-human animal corpse wrapped in linen bandages for burial, especially as practised by the ancient Egyptians and some Native American tribes. countable
"1832, Royal Society (Great Britain), Abstracts of The Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, From 1800 to 1830 inclusive, Volume 1: 1800-1814, page 201, […] Mr. Pearson proceeds to give a particular description of the very perfect mummy of an Ibis, which forms the chief subject of the present paper."
- 2 mother. India, New-England, UK, childish, usually
"“Oh, mummy, would you like the loveliest daughter-in-law in the world? Oh, mummy, I must marry Flora Dewsley. But I know I am not nearly good enough, mummy. She knows nothing of the world and its wickedness, and I — Well, mummy, at school, a fellow learns everything. And no man is perfect, is he, mummy?[…]”"
- 3 a body embalmed and dried and wrapped for burial (as in ancient Egypt) wordnet
- 4 A reanimated embalmed human corpse, as a stock character in horror films. broadly, countable
"For many, mummies fascinate more than repel. Our horrific connotations lie not so much with the mummy itself, but in associated fears. The mummy serves, of course, as a general reminder of our own mortality and our fear of death, but this alone is not enough to make it a monster."
- 5 informal terms for a mother wordnet
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- 6 Any naturally preserved human or non-human animal body. broadly, countable
"'Mummy,' that is pounded ancient Egyptian, is, I believe, a pigment much used by artists, and especially by those of them who direct their talents to the reproduction of the works of the old masters."
- 7 Any naturally preserved human or non-human animal body. (countable, uncountable, now rare) A brown pigment originally prepared from the ground-up remains of Egyptian animal or human mummies mixed with bitumen, etc.; A brown pigment originally prepared from the ground-up remains of Egyptian animal or human mummies mixed with bitumen, etc. archaic, broadly, countable, uncountable
- 8 A pulp. archaic, uncountable
"Imagine twenty thouſand of them breaking into the midſt of an European Army, confounding the Ranks, overturning the Carriages, battering the Warriors Faces into Mummy, by terrible Yerks from their hinder Hoofs."
- 9 A substance used in medicine, prepared from mummified flesh. historical, uncountable
"Yet another scatological medicament was obtained from mummy, the material derived from a dried or embalmed human corpse, the most valuable being that imported from Mizraim (ancient Egypt)."
- 10 A sort of wax used in grafting. obsolete, uncountable
- 1 To mummify. dated, transitive
Etymology
From Middle English mummie, from Anglo-Norman mumie, from Middle French momie, from Medieval Latin mumia, from Arabic مُومِيَاء (mūmiyāʔ), from Persian مومیا (mumyâ), from موم (mum, “wax”). Doublet of mumijo.
From Middle English mummie, from Anglo-Norman mumie, from Middle French momie, from Medieval Latin mumia, from Arabic مُومِيَاء (mūmiyāʔ), from Persian مومیا (mumyâ), from موم (mum, “wax”). Doublet of mumijo.
From mum + -y (diminutive suffix), related to mom and mommy, from mother.
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