mummie

Definitions

Alternative spelling of mummy (“mother”).

alt-of, alternative

Equivalents

Examples

“‘Isn’t it a jolly place⟳?’ she said to Guy. ‘I like⟳ it ever so much better than Mussooree. Only perhaps that’s because I’ve got mummie. It is always horrid without mummie. Unless of course I’ve got Auntie Helen,’ she added politely. / Guy laughed. ‘You little humbug,’ he said; ‘I don’t believe⟳ you care for Auntie Helen a bit.’ / ‘Yes I do. I care for her very much. Only of course I love⟳ my mummie just one little weeny bit the best.’”

“Dearest Mother: I have⟳ been a bad girl not to write⟳ you, […] Will you forgive⟳ me?—My mind⟳ has been pretty much taken up with all this, & I have⟳ neglected my mummie.”

“Now Dorothy’s children were teenagers. Mack was sixteen, and Bitsy was thirteen. […] She taught Bitsy to call⟳ her Mummie, but Mack out-and-out called her Mama. […] I bridled at this new information and made a mental note⟳ to tell⟳ Mummie. I imagined Miss⟳ Gussie having Glenn Davis over to her house to a Kool-Aid party. After he left she would have⟳ to fumigate. I knew my mummie would.”

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