- (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。 🔊🔊
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
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’.