mummie

English

Etymology

From mum +‎ -ie.

Noun

mummie (plural mummies)

1. Alternative spelling of mummy (“mother”).
   • 1892, John Roy [pseudonym; Mortimer Durand], “Simla”, in Helen Treveryan: or, The Ruling Race […], volume II, London; New York, N.Y.: Macmillan and Co., →OCLC, page 150:

     ‘Isn’t it a jolly place?’ she said to Guy. ‘I like it ever so much better than Mussooree. Only perhaps that’s because I’ve got mummie. It is always horrid without mummie. Unless of course I’ve got Auntie Helen,’ she added politely. / Guy laughed. ‘You little humbug,’ he said; ‘I don’t believe you care for Auntie Helen a bit.’ / ‘Yes I do. I care for her very much. Only of course I love my mummie just one little weeny bit the best.’

   • 1923 May 30, Edna St. Vincent Millay, “To Mrs. Cora B[uzelle] Millay”, in Allan Ross Macdougall, editor, Letters of Edna St. Vincent Millay, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, published 1952, →LCCN, →OCLC, chapter V (New York—The Orient—Steepletop: 1923–1925), page 174:

     Dearest Mother: I have been a bad girl not to write you, […] Will you forgive me?—My mind has been pretty much taken up with all this, & I have neglected my mummie.

   • 1990, Michael Lee West, “Part Two”, in Crazy Ladies, New York, N.Y.: HarperPerennial, →ISBN, pages 97 (Miss Gussie: 1966) and 150 (Bitsy: 1966):

     Now Dorothy’s children were teenagers. Mack was sixteen, and Bitsy was thirteen. […] She taught Bitsy to call her Mummie, but Mack out-and-out called her Mama. […] I bridled at this new information and made a mental note to tell Mummie. I imagined Miss Gussie having Glenn Davis over to her house to a Kool-Aid party. After he left she would have to fumigate. I knew my mummie would.

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch mummie, from Middle French mommie, from Latin mumia, from Arabic مُومِيَاء (mūmiyāʔ).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmœ.mi/

Noun

mummie (plural mummies)

1. A mummy (extensively preserved corpse).

Dutch

Deze Egyptische mummie is niet in voor moppen. — This Egyptian mummy isn't in the mood for any jokes.

Alternative forms

• mommie (obsolete)

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French mommie, from Latin mumia, from Arabic مُومِيَاء (mūmiyāʔ).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmʏ.mi/

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• Hyphenation: mum‧mie

Noun

mummie f (plural mummies, diminutive mummietje n)

1. a mummy (extensively preserved corpse)

   Ken jij de mop van de mummie?

   Do you know the joke about the mummy?

Italian

Noun

mummie f

1. plural of mummia