English Explanatory Dictionary

mombie

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A cow.
noun
  1. A mother who is consumed by raising her children to the point of being sleep-deprived or simply obsessed, and hence zombie-like.
  2. A zombie (i.e. undead) mother.

Pronunciation

En-au-mombie.ogg

Word forms

mombie mombies

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Bantu *ngòmbè Shona mombebor. English mombie Borrowed from Shona mombe (“cow”), from Proto-Bantu *ngòmbè.

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