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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A variant of mummy.

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Examples

  • January 16, 2008 at 3:51 pm warz pokyoupynes reel momie go?

    MOM???? - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008

  • The entrance hall is filled with what appears to be a communion table in solid oak, and the massive chairs and settees of the parlor suggest the withdrawing room of Rowena, aesthetic shades of momie-cloth drape deep-set windows, where anaemic and disjointed females in stained glass pluck conventional roses.

    Worldly Ways and Byways Eliot Gregory 1884

  • La momie: la tombe De l'Empereur Dragon french dvdrip xvid [TheBoy] (A Wondreful Voice) Rachelle Ferrell - Individuality (can i be me) Mp3 vbr elect CatamesoviesVideosppsnimeudioComics

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  • La momie: la tombe De l'Empereur Dragon french dvdrip xvid [TheBoy] (A Wondreful Voice) Rachelle Ferrell - Individuality (can i be me) Mp3 vbr elect CatamesoviesVideosppsnimeudioComics

    unknown title 2009

  • Well what i do is wake up Early in the morning before my momie wakes up and make her breakfast also get my twin and my big bro to wake her up.

    Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions 2009

  • La momie: la tombe De l'Empereur Dragon french dvdrip xvid [TheBoy] (A Wondreful Voice) Rachelle Ferrell - Individuality (can i be me) Mp3 vbr elect CatamesoviesVideosppsnimeudioComics

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  • When his father abandoned him, and his momie left him, and his step daddy said eeeeeeech, his grandparents bought him a Tonka truck, because they were hopelessly white people who didn't realize that as a chuild of the People Obama, blessed be his name, really wanted the Koran, and the Little Red Book.

    Ace of Spades HQ 2009

  • Well what i do is wake up Early in the morning before my momie wakes up and make her breakfast also get my twin and my big bro to wake her up.

    Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions 2009

  • March 14, 2008 at 2:12 pm o, okay…i iz more teh middul aje momie type…but taht’s okay!

    Iz our fort. - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008

  • Seriously, I read part of his anti-environmentalist screed without paying for it…and it was a call to arms for rightwinger’s to kill a few “commies for momie”, anyone who thinks environmentalists would start a earthrending catechism just to prove a point…whatever….should join the Nazi party or it’s modern equivalent, the Republican party…no difference…

    Think Progress » Inhofe Hearing Accuses Media of ‘Hyping Scientifically Unfounded Climate Alarmism’ 2006

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  • "Among the strangest of Francesco Pegolotti's spices is momie, also known as mumia and informally in English as mummy."

    You can see where this is going.

    "The fundamental drug handbook known from its first (Latin) words as Circa instans (dating from 1166) defines mummy as 'a kind of spice collected from the tombs of the dead' -- but not just any dead people, only those whose bodies have been specially embalmed. Mummy, which was thought to be effective in stopping bleeding, was an exudation from the head and spine of the corpse resulting from decay combined with the spices used in the preservation process."

    Here is where my stomach started to turn. Moving on...

    "Indeed, Pegolotti notes that mummy should have a foul odor and a pitchlike consistency, or else it's inferior."

    Paul Freedman, Out of the East: Spices and the Medieval Imagination (New Haven and London: Yale UP, 2008), 13-14.

    Later in the same book... "The boundaries between wellness and luxury were nonexistent. ... Even mummy had a certain consumer cachet. Shakespeare's Othello, a Moor and so familiar with the East, possessed a handkerchief (in fact the fatal handkerchief given to Desdemona) 'dy'd in mummy.'"

    (p. 69)

    October 9, 2017