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Noun: mummy  mú-mee
  1. [informal] A woman who has given birth to a child (also used as a term of address to your mother)
    - mother, female parent, ma [informal], mama [informal], mamma [informal], mom [N. Amer, informal], momma [N. Amer, informal], mommy [N. Amer, informal], mammy [informal], mum [Brit, informal], mam [UK, informal], supermom [informal]
     
  2. A body embalmed and dried and wrapped for burial (as in ancient Egypt)

Derived forms: mummies

Type of: body, dead body, parent

Encyclopedia: Mummy, Tomb of the Pharaoh