Synonyms of the word

mummy

• n. (uncountable, medicine, now historical) A substance used in medicine, prepared from mummified flesh.
• n. (now rare) A pulp.
• n. An embalmed corpse wrapped in linen bandages for burial, especially as practised by the ancient Egyptians.
• n. Any naturally preserved human or animal body.
• n. (obsolete, horticulture) A sort of wax used in grafting.
• n. (now rare) A brown pigment obtained from bitumen, also called mummy brown.
• n. Specifically, a reanimated embalmed human corpse, as a typical character in horror films.
• v. (dated, transitive) To mummify.
• n. (chiefly Britain, usually childish) mother.

body

• n. Physical frame.
• n. Main section.
• n. Coherent group.
• n. Material entity.
• n. (printing) The shank of a type, or the depth of the shank (by which the size is indicated).
• n. (geometry) A three-dimensional object, such as a cube or cone.
• v. To give body or shape to something.
• v. To construct the bodywork of a car.
• v. (transitive) To embody.

ma

• n. (astronomy, usually in the plural) Abbreviation of milli-arcsecond.
• n. (colloquial, and in direct address) mother, mama.
• abbr. May.

mama

• n. (hypocoristic, usually childish) Mother, female parent.

mamma

• n. (anatomy) The milk-secreting organ of female humans and other mammals which includes the mammary gland…
• n. (meteorology) an accessory cloud like a mammary in appearance, which can form on the underside of most…
• n. Alternative spelling of mama: mother.

mammy

• n. (childish) mamma; mother.
• n. (US, historical, often pejorative) In the southern United States, a black nanny employed to look after…

mom

• n. (US, West Midlands, colloquial, familiar) mother, momma.
• n. (uncountable) The quality or state of being a mom; motherhood.

momma

• n. (US, colloquial) mother.
• n. (slang) voluptuous woman.
• n. (slang) wife or girlfriend.

mommy

• n. (US, Canada, usually childish) Mother.

mother

• n. A (human) female who (a) parents a child (b) gives birth to a baby (c) donates a fertilized egg or (d)…
• n. A female parent of an animal.
• n. (figuratively) A female ancestor.
• n. (figuratively) A source or origin.
• n. (when followed by a surname) A title of respect for one's mother-in-law.
• n. (figuratively) Any elderly woman, especially within a particular community.
• n. (figuratively) Any person or entity which performs mothering.
• n. The principal piece of an astrolabe, into which the others are fixed.
• n. The female superior or head of a religious house; an abbess, etc.
• n. (obsolete) Hysterical passion; hysteria.
• v. (transitive) To treat as a mother would be expected to treat her child; to nurture.
• n. Something that is the greatest or most significant of its kind.
• n. A stringy, mucilaginous or film- or membrane-like substance (consisting of acetobacters) which develops…
• v. (transitive) To cause to contain mother (“that substance which develops in fermenting alcohol and turns…
• v. (intransitive, of an alcohol) To develop mother.
• n. (euphemistic, vulgar, slang) Motherfucker.
• n. (euphemistic, colloquial) A striking example.
• n. Alternative form of moth-er.

mum

• n. (Britain, Australia, New England, informal) Mother.
• n. (dated, colloquial) ma'am; a term of respect for an older woman.
• n. A chrysanthemum.
• adj. (colloquial) silent.
• adj. (colloquial) secret.
• interj. stop speaking! hush!
• v. to act in a pantomime or dumb show.
• n. (obsolete) silence.
• n. A sort of strong beer, originally made in Brunswick, Germany.