Dummy vs Mummy - What's the difference?
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A silent person; a person who does not talk.
An unintelligent person.
A figure of a person or animal used by a ventriloquist; a puppet.
Something constructed with the size and form of a human, to be used in place of a person.
A deliberately nonfunctional device or tool used in place of a functional one.
(AU, UK, NZ) A "dummy teat"; a plastic or rubber teat used to soothe or comfort a baby; a pacifier.
* 2006 , Tizzie Hall, Save Our Sleep: A Parents? Guide Towards Happy, Sleeping Babies from Birth to Two Years , MacMillan 2009,
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* 2011 , Simone Cave, Caroline Fertleman, Baby to Toddler Month by Month ,
(card games, chiefly, bridge) A player whose hand is shown and is to be played from by another player.
(UK) A bodily gesture meant to fool an opposing player in sport; a feint.
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(linguistics) A word serving only to make a construction grammatical.
(programming) An unused parameter or value.
To make a mock-up or prototype version of something, without some or all off its intended functionality.
To feint
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* 1978 , Benjamin Walker, Encyclopedia of Metaphysical Medicine , Routledge 1978, p. 253:
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* 1837 , Mathew Carey, Vindiciae Hibernicae (page 116)
An embalmed corpse wrapped in linen bandages for burial, especially as practised by the ancient Egyptians.
* 1832 , Royal Society (Great Britain), Abstracts of The Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, From 1800 to 1830 inclusive , Volume 1: 1800-1814,
* 2008 , Sudipta Bardhan-Quallen,, Mysteries Unwrapped: The Real Monsters ,
Any naturally preserved human or animal body.
(obsolete, horticulture) A sort of wax used in grafting.
Specifically, a reanimated embalmed human corpse, as a typical character in horror films.
* 2007 , S. T. Joshi, Icons of Horror and the Supernatural: An Encyclopedia of Our Worst Nightmares , Volume 1,
(dated) To mummify.
(chiefly, UK, usually, childish) A child's term for mother .
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As nouns the difference between dummy and mummy
is that dummy is a silent person; a person who does not talk while mummy is a substance used in medicine, prepared from mummified flesh.As verbs the difference between dummy and mummy
is that dummy is to make a mock-up or prototype version of something, without some or all off its intended functionality while mummy is to mummify.As a proper noun Mummy is
one's mother.dummy
English
Noun
(dummies)- Don't be such a dummy !
- To understand the effects of the accident, we dropped a dummy from the rooftop.
- The hammer and drill in the display are dummies .
- The baby wants her dummy .
page 200,
- Then on the fifth day, at the first sleep of the day, remove the dummy' and follow my settling guide for your baby?s age. You should throw all her ' dummies in the bin to ensure you are not tempted to use them again – even outside sleep times.
page 15,
- No Fairy baby has ever been seen to suck its thumb or to use a dummy .
page 85,
- We?ve found that going cold turkey works best – you check that your baby isn't ill or teething, then throw all dummies' away. When your baby cries for her ' dummy , you can look her in the eye and say, ‘It?s gone,’ and really mean it.
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- The pronoun "it" in "It's a mystery why this happened" is a dummy .
- If
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Synonyms
* (a thing in the form of a person) mannequin, marionette * (plastic teat) pacifier (US), soother (Canada)Derived terms
* dummy bid * dummy bidderSee also
* dud * fake * feintExternal links
* http://www.languagehat.com/archives/002594.phpVerb
- The carpenters dummied some props for the rehearsals.
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Derived terms
* dummy out * dummy upmummy
English
(wikipedia mummy)Etymology 1
From (etyl) mumie, from (etyl) momie, from .Noun
(mummies)- Yet another scatological medicament was obtained from mummy , the material derived from a dried or embalmed human corpse, the most valuable being that imported from Mizraim (ancient Egypt).
- Nonetheless, his book advertises many Paracelsian remedies, including laudanum, mummy , antimony and mercury.
- You may beat them to a mummy , you may put them upon the rack, you may burn them on a gridiron,
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- Mr. Pearson proceeds to give a particular description of the very perfect mummy of an Ibis, which forms the chief subject of the present paper.
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- Many people believed in the curse of the mummy , and soon, the curse had become an accepted part of Tut?s legend.
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- For many, mummies' fascinate more than repel. Our horrific connotations lie not so much with the '''mummy''' itself, but in associated fears. The ' mummy serves, of course, as a general reminder of our own mortality and our fear of death, but this alone is not enough to make it a monster.
Verb
See also
*Etymology 2
Diminutive of mum'', related to ''mom'' and ''mommy'', from ''mother .Noun
(mummies)page 9,
- “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?”
page 188,
- Meeting mummy after this visit was not exactly easy.
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- “What?s your problem, you little shit? Proud of yourself, for ruining Mummy'?s life?” I was careful to use the insipid falsetto the experts commend. “You?ve got Daddy snowed, but ' Mummy ?s got your number. You're a little shit, aren?t you??
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- Darla stared at her father and said, Mummy', '''Mummy''', ' Mummy !
- Marjorie wheezed and said, Father. You. Are. Filthy !
- Joe said Daddy?s muddy! Daddy?s muddy!
- Darla stared at the darkened doorway where Howard stood, saying, Mummy', '''Mummy''', ' Mummy , each time a little louder, each time a bit more shrilly,.