mummy
noun/ˈmʌmi/
/ˈmʌmi/
(plural mummies)
- (British English) (North American English mommy, momma)(informal) a child’s word for a mother
- ‘I want my mummy!’ he wailed.
- It hurts, Mummy!
- Mummy and Daddy will be back soon.
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- a body of a human or an animal that has been mummified
- an Egyptian mummy
Word Originsense 1 late 18th cent.: perhaps an alteration of earlier mammy.sense 2 late Middle English (denoting a substance taken from embalmed bodies and used in medicines): from French momie, from medieval Latin mumia and Arabic mūmiyā ‘embalmed body’, perhaps from Persian mūm ‘wax’.
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