Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Mother.
- noun The dead body of a human or animal that has been embalmed and prepared for burial, as according to the practices of the ancient Egyptians.
- noun A withered, shrunken, or well-preserved body that resembles an embalmed body.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[Alteration of mommy or mum.]
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[Middle English mummie, resin obtained from embalmed corpses and used as medicine, from Old French momie, from Medieval Latin mumia, from Arabic mūmiyā’, mūmiyā, a kind of bitumen used to treat wounds and fractures, medicinal resin from mummies.]
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