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mombie

noun

Etymology

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

  1. derived from sombra — “shadow, phantom”
  2. compounded as mombie — “mom + zombie”

Definitions

  1. A cow.

    • "Mr. Mhene," Chris said, rather cautiously. "On my way here I met a herd of cows wandering down the road. Tourists will come to the Mavuradonha to see elephants and sables, not mombies."
    • But there are traces, hoof marks of mombies are encrusted in the dried mud.
    • 'Start looking for mombies.'

  2. A mother who is consumed by raising her children to the point of being sleep-deprived or…

    A mother who is consumed by raising her children to the point of being sleep-deprived or simply obsessed, and hence zombie-like.

    • The woman who used to start the day with a Spin class with Suzanne turned into a mombie—a mom zombie who was a shadow of her former self. Showering was no longer important. Why bother?

  3. A zombie (i.e. undead) mother.

    • There was a blood smear across her mouth, skewed like lipstick applied by a drunken hand. Mom was a fucking zombie. “Mombie,” he said, giggling stupidly, deliriously.
    • A mombie. I always knew she was undead. It explains everything.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for mombie. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA