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mummylike

mummylike adjective: resembling or characteristic of a mummy (embalmed corpse).

Adjective

mummylike (comparative more mummylike, superlative most mummylike)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of a mummy (embalmed corpse).
    • I could, however, clearly distinguish that the swathed mummy-like form before me was that of a tall and lovely woman, instinct with beauty in every part, and also with a certain snake-like grace which I had never seen anything to equal before.1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC
    • Abby and her boyfriend, Jared (“And Jared was all, ‘Whoa’ ”), even wrap and duct-tape the vampires for daytime transport and are caught by the police loading two mummylike objects into a minivan.2007 January 15, Janet Maslin, “The Vampire Wears Flannel, and He Cheats on His Tan”, in New York Times

Forms of mummylike

comparativemore mummylike
superlativemost mummylike

Origin of mummylike

From mummy + -like.

Questions about mummylike

What does mummylike mean?
Mummylike means resembling or characteristic of a mummy (embalmed corpse).
What part of speech is mummylike?
Mummylike is an adjective.

Words near mummylike in the dictionary

  1. mummying
  2. mummyish
  3. mummyji
  4. mummyjis
  5. mummykins
  6. mummylike
  7. mummyology
  8. mumness
  9. mumoir
  10. mumoirs
  11. mump

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