mummy
mummy — noun
1. a child's warm, loving word for their mother — the person who gave birth to them
a child's warm, loving word for their mother — the person who gave birth to them or takes care of them, used when talking to or about her.
Noor's mummy picked her up from school every day at half past three.
Sora ran straight to his mummy and wrapped his arms around her legs.
mummy with affectionate physical actions
Jude asked his mummy if he could have an extra story before bed.
Reema held her mummy's hand tightly while they crossed the busy street.
Little Mathieu drew a picture of his mummy with a big pink dress.
- daddy
The corresponding affectionate term for a father
文法句型
my/your mummy
[possessive] mummy
用法筆記
Primarily used in British English by young children and by adults speaking affectionately to or about their mother. The American English equivalent is 'mommy'. This sense is not used for dead bodies — see sense 2.
2. a dead person or animal whose body has been kept from rotting by a special dryin
a dead person or animal whose body has been kept from rotting by a special drying or chemical treatment, often wrapped in cloth — most famously done in ancient Egypt as part of burial traditions.
The museum has a room full of ancient Egyptian mummies in tall glass cases.
Archaeologists found a well-preserved mummy buried under the desert sand near Luxor.
Scientists used a CT scanner to study the mummy without unwrapping its cloth bandages.
The oldest mummy in the world was discovered in the mountains of Chile, not Egypt.
Adaeze read a book about how priests removed the organs before wrapping a mummy for the afterlife.
文法句型
[adjective] mummy
mummy of + [person/place]
用法筆記
Often appears with 'ancient' or 'Egyptian.' A mummy still has soft tissues (skin, organs) preserved; it is not a skeleton. The word can also refer to naturally preserved bodies found in bogs, ice, or dry deserts, not only those made by people.