mummy

name

1. One's mother.

noun

Etymology: From mum + -y (diminutive suffix), related to mom and mommy, from mother.

1. mother.

   ““Oh, mummy, would you like the loveliest daughter-in-law in the world? Oh, mummy, I must marry Flora Dewsley. But I know I am not nearly good enough, mummy. She knows nothing of the world and its wickedness, and I — Well, mummy, at school, a fellow learns everything. And no man is perfect, is he, mummy?[…]””

   “Meeting mummy after this visit was not exactly easy.”

verb

Etymology: From Middle English mummie, from Anglo-Norman mumie, from Middle French momie, from Medieval Latin mumia, from Arabic مُومِيَاء (mūmiyāʔ), from Persian مومیا (mumyâ), from موم (mum, “wax”). Doublet of mumijo.

1. To mummify.