What's the difference between
and
Enter two words to compare and contrast their definitions, origins, and synonyms to better understand how those words are related.

Dummy vs Mummy - What's the difference?

dummy | mummy |

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)
  • A silent person; a person who does not talk.
  • An unintelligent person.
  • Don't be such a dummy !
  • 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.
  • To understand the effects of the accident, we dropped a dummy from the rooftop.
  • A deliberately nonfunctional device or tool used in place of a functional one.
  • The hammer and drill in the display are dummies .
  • (AU, UK, NZ) A "dummy teat"; a plastic or rubber teat used to soothe or comfort a baby; a pacifier.
  • The baby wants her dummy .
  • * 2006 , Tizzie Hall, Save Our Sleep: A Parents? Guide Towards Happy, Sleeping Babies from Birth to Two Years , MacMillan 2009, 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.
  • * 2008 , Bern, Bern's Fairy Tales , page 15,
  • No Fairy baby has ever been seen to suck its thumb or to use a dummy .
  • * 2011 , Simone Cave, Caroline Fertleman, Baby to Toddler Month by Month , 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.
  • (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.
  • * {{quote-news
  • , year=2011 , date=January 12 , author=Saj Chowdhury , title=Liverpool 2 - 1 Liverpool , work=BBC citation , page= , passage=Raul Meireles was the victim of the home side's hustling on this occasion giving the ball away to the impressive David Vaughan who slipped in Taylor-Fletcher. The striker sold Daniel Agger with the best dummy of the night before placing his shot past keeper Pepe Reina.}}
  • (linguistics) A word serving only to make a construction grammatical.
  • The pronoun "it" in "It's a mystery why this happened" is a dummy .
  • (programming) An unused parameter or value.
  • If flag1 is false, the other parameters are dummies .

    Synonyms

    * (a thing in the form of a person) mannequin, marionette * (plastic teat) pacifier (US), soother (Canada)

    Derived terms

    * dummy bid * dummy bidder

    See also

    * dud * fake * feint

    Verb

  • To make a mock-up or prototype version of something, without some or all off its intended functionality.
  • The carpenters dummied some props for the rehearsals.
  • To feint
  • * {{quote-news
  • , year=2011 , date=February 1 , author=Mandeep Sanghera , title=Man Utd 3 - 1 Aston Villa , work=BBC citation , page= , passage=The more glamorous qualities usually associated with him are skill and pace and he used those to race on to a ball across him and dummy a defender before having a right-foot shot saved. }}
  • * {{quote-news
  • , year=2011 , date=January 15 , author=Kevin Darling , title=West Ham 0 - 3 Arsenal , work=BBC citation , page= , passage=For the first, the 30-year-old allowed Walcott space on the right to send in a pass that was expertly dummied by Samir Nasri, allowing Van Persie to swivel and smash right-footed past Robert Green. }}

    Derived terms

    * dummy out * dummy up

    mummy

    English

    (wikipedia mummy)

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) mumie, from (etyl) momie, from .

    Noun

    (mummies)
  • * 1978 , Benjamin Walker, Encyclopedia of Metaphysical Medicine , Routledge 1978, p. 253:
  • 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).
  • * 2006 , (Philip Ball), The Devil's Doctor , Arrow 2007, p. 360:
  • Nonetheless, his book advertises many Paracelsian remedies, including laudanum, mummy , antimony and mercury.
  • * 1837 , Mathew Carey, Vindiciae Hibernicae (page 116)
  • You may beat them to a mummy , you may put them upon the rack, you may burn them on a gridiron,
  • 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, page 201,
  • 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.
  • * 2008 , Sudipta Bardhan-Quallen,, Mysteries Unwrapped: The Real Monsters , page 2,
  • Many people believed in the curse of the mummy , and soon, the curse had become an accepted part of Tut?s legend.
  • 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, page 376,
  • 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

  • (dated) To mummify.
  • See also
    *

    Etymology 2

    Diminutive of mum'', related to ''mom'' and ''mommy'', from ''mother .

    Noun

    (mummies)
  • (chiefly, UK, usually, childish) A child's term for mother .
  • * 1926 , , Volume 198, 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?”
  • * 1927 , , Volume 155, page 188,
  • Meeting mummy after this visit was not exactly easy.
  • * 2003 , , 2010, unnumbered page,
  • “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??
  • * 2004 , Dennis Child, Psychology and the Teacher , Continuum International Publishing, page 91,
  • ‘’
  • * 2009 , , 2010, unnumbered page,
  • 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,.
    Alternative forms
    * mommy (US)
    Derived terms
    * mummy's boy * mummy porn