Difference between Mommy and Mummy

What is the difference between Mommy and Mummy?

Mommy as a noun is mother (as used by young children) while Mummy as a noun is a substance used in medicine prepared from mummified flesh.

Mommy

Part of speech: noun

Definition: mother (as used by young children)

Example sentence: Here's the thing with the costumes for 'Mommy': Given the background and social strata that the characters come from, you can't really imagine that they've gone shopping lately, so we went for that very normcore, fashionless era in history, the early 2000s, which was completely transitional.

Mummy

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A substance used in medicine prepared from mummified flesh.A pulp.An embalmed corpse wrapped in linen bandages for burial, especially as practised by the ancient Egyptians.Any naturally preserved human or animal body.A child's term for mother.

Example sentence: Mind you, I've always been musical... Mother used to sit me on her knee and I'd whisper, 'Mummy, Mummy, sing me a lullaby do,' and she'd say: 'Certainly my angel, my wee bundle of happiness, hold my beer while I fetch me banjo.'

We hope you now know whether to use Mommy or Mummy in your sentence.

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