What's the difference between daddy and mummy?

Daddy


Definition:

  • (n.) Diminutive of Dad.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Cameron: Anthony Lansley has my 110% backing … Lansley: That's me out of a job within the next six months then … Clegg: Can I say something, Daddy?
  • (2) In the meditation hall, daddy longlegs dropped from the ceiling, feeding my anxiety.
  • (3) They loved playing and doing things with their daddy and now they will never be able to play with him again.
  • (4) If he comes back it’s like he’s got away with it.” In the club’s superstore, Zak Dilly and his girlfriend Hannah Betts – who have just chosen a babygrow for their niece with the slogan “Mummy taught me ABC, Daddy taught me SUFC” – are clear about whose side they are on.
  • (5) It's huge and slightly eerie, with one column of light pouring in the top and a hairy wall made entirely of sleeping daddy longlegs.
  • (6) He lost no time climbing on the back of the clown car of the demagogue who, with ghoulishly oedipal glee, he calls “Daddy”.
  • (7) The Conservatives previously killed off Nick Clegg's demands for a month of dedicated "daddy leave" instead of the current two weeks.
  • (8) "I only do it for people who might understand and appreciate it," she told radio DJ Daddy-O Daylie.
  • (9) Another hero of the punk era, Mick Jones of the Clash, who co-wrote My Daddy was a Bank Robber, was also present but the music was left to the choir and the Alabama Three who sang Too Sick to Pray.
  • (10) Luckily, I have lots of people I can practise on, to say, ‘Do you understand that phrase?’ and if they don’t they say, ‘What does that mean, daddy?’ You have to put yourself in a child’s shoes.
  • (11) Common issues also included the books being of poor quality, getting basic facts wrong (such as referring to same-sex adopters as mummy and daddy) or being completed by someone who had never met the child.
  • (12) Courtesy the estate of Richard Hamilton They called him "Daddy Pop" but Hamilton was so much more.
  • (13) The last time I went to Laurence’s house he was doing Daddy Daycare so he played me a few songs on his guitar – he’s currently writing music.
  • (14) Click any Facebook post on the Peterson story, any tweet by a major publication on the topic, any newspaper’s comments section – hell, you could probably wait a couple minutes and read the comments here – and you will find someone saying: My daddy whooped the hell out of me, and I turned out fine.
  • (15) But if their daddy did a good job that might make take a second look.” Beau Jackson Jr agreed.
  • (16) Osborne: She's stuck at Heathrow immigration … Clegg: I'm here, Daddy, I'm here … Cameron: So you are.
  • (17) Two-year-old Yishai was covered in blood, saying "wake up, daddy, wake up", according to Goldschmidt.
  • (18) As Wendy explains to her son, "It wasn't your daddy trying to hurt me … the Overlook has gotten into your daddy!"
  • (19) Ali was the daddy of the modern-day wind-up – and he would have been appalled by the behaviour of Chisora and Haye in Munich.
  • (20) Insulin from the principal islets of the teleost fish, Cottus scorpius (daddy sculpin), has been isolated and sequenced.

Mummy


Definition:

  • (n.) A dead body embalmed and dried after the manner of the ancient Egyptians; also, a body preserved, by any means, in a dry state, from the process of putrefaction.
  • (n.) Dried flesh of a mummy.
  • (n.) A gummy liquor that exudes from embalmed flesh when heated; -- formerly supposed to have magical and medicinal properties.
  • (n.) A brown color obtained from bitumen. See Mummy brown (below).
  • (n.) A sort of wax used in grafting, etc.
  • (n.) One whose affections and energies are withered.
  • (v. t.) To embalm; to mummify.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Structures resembling red blood cells have been seen in mummies, but have been considered by some to be artifacts or molds.
  • (2) Three beautifully restored mummy portraits of well-off young people who were, 2,000 years ago, probably members of a mysterious group called "the 6475" are to go on display at the new home for one of the most important Egyptian collections in the world.
  • (3) If he comes back it’s like he’s got away with it.” In the club’s superstore, Zak Dilly and his girlfriend Hannah Betts – who have just chosen a babygrow for their niece with the slogan “Mummy taught me ABC, Daddy taught me SUFC” – are clear about whose side they are on.
  • (4) "It is not by any means the end of the road because the technology is moving on rapidly all the time, and we're hoping in the next few years we'll be able to continue scanning more mummies and revealing more remarkable facts."
  • (5) Three Pharaonic mummies, preserved for thousand of years, had fiberoptic endoscopy carried out of the cranial, thoracic and abdominal cavities.
  • (6) No cases of this disease have been seen in Peruvian mummies while in Chile it seems quite common, suggesting some environmental factor in the etiology.
  • (7) There are still disputes over mummy portraits, for example whether they were done while the subjects were alive or after they were dead, as part of the 70-day mummification process.
  • (8) The bile acids of the gall bladder and hepatic tissue of a 3200-year-old Egyptian mummy were isolated by thin-layer chromatography and identified by combined gas-liquid chromatrography and mass spectrometry.
  • (9) Common issues also included the books being of poor quality, getting basic facts wrong (such as referring to same-sex adopters as mummy and daddy) or being completed by someone who had never met the child.
  • (10) One female mummy is displayed with a translation of an offering inscription, which visitors will be invited to recite to ensure her food supply in the next world.
  • (11) It is worthwhile to note the suggestive role of mummy cells in pathological diagnosis of Hodgkin's disease.
  • (12) And Mummy said darling, do you remember Bodrum when Nanny walked into pre-lunch drinks on the gulet, of course everyone was incredibly kind, bringing her a Tizer and some After Eights before the men threw her in the sea, the gentlest of hints but basically she never left the lower decks again?
  • (13) A 500-year-old mummy of a seven-month-old Eskimo infant recently removed from a tomb north of Umanak presented problems of preservation.
  • (14) The museum has been x-raying mummies since the 1960s but, as the technology has improved, the results have dramatically improved.
  • (15) The ancient cultures of Babylon, Jericho, and Egypt used "art-eyes" in mummies, sarcophagus lids, and statues; they were made from precious stones, silver, gold, and copper as a symbol of light and life in their religious beliefs.
  • (16) The second mummy was a 18-year-old young woman, 800-700 b. C. From the inscriptions on the sarcophagus name, family and living circumstances could be found.
  • (17) Taylor hopes even more secrets will be revealed in years to come, including being able to read hieroglyphic inscriptions on objects inside the mummies.
  • (18) Recently I've just been at home enjoying being a mummy, but it's been nine months now and I'm slowly getting ready to return to work.
  • (19) 17.42 Julie : Mummy, tell the police they must be quick.
  • (20) Zoe Dronfield set up a support group, I want my Mummy (IWMM), after her abusive ex-partner was given emergency custody of their child.

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