Mummy
[muhm-ee] /ˈmʌm i/
noun, plural mummies.
1.
the dead body of a human being or animal preserved by the ancient Egyptian process or some similar method of embalming.
2.
a dead body dried and preserved by nature.
3.
a withered or shrunken living being.
4.
a dry, shriveled fruit, tuber, or other plant organ, resulting from any of several fungous diseases.
verb (used with object), mummied, mummying.
5.
to make into or cause to resemble a mummy; .
[muhm-ee] /ˈmʌm i/
noun, plural mummies. Chiefly British.
1.
1 .
/ˈmʌmɪ/
noun (pl) -mies
1.
an embalmed or preserved body, esp as prepared for burial in ancient Egypt
2.
(obsolete) the substance of such a body used medicinally
3.
a mass of pulp
4.
a dark brown pigment
/ˈmʌmɪ/
noun (pl) -mies
1.
(mainly Brit) a child’s word for mother1
n.
c.1400, “medicine prepared from mummy tissue,” from Medieval Latin mumia, from Arabic mumiyah “embalmed body,” from Persian mumiya “asphalt,” from mum “wax.” Sense of “embalmed body” first recorded in English 1610s. Mummy wheat (1842) was said to be cultivated from grains found in mummy-cases.
1784, childish alteration of mammy. Alternative form mumsy attested by 1876.
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