mummy
noun /ˈmʌmi/
/ˈmʌmi/
(plural mummies)
- (British English) (North American English mommy, momma)(informal) a child’s word for a mother
(儿语)妈咪 - ‘I want my mummy!’ he wailed.
他哭叫着:“我要妈妈!” - It hurts, Mummy!
妈妈,疼! - Mummy and Daddy will be back soon.
妈妈爸爸就要回来了。
- ‘I want my mummy!’ he wailed.
- a body of a human or an animal that has been mummified
木乃伊;经处理保存的人体或动物干尸 - an Egyptian mummy
一具埃及木乃伊
- an Egyptian mummy
词源sense 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’.