mombie
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A cow.
noun
A mother who is consumed by raising her children to the point of being sleep-deprived or simply obsessed, and hence zombie-like.
Canadian usage; American usage; Derogatory; Slang
Example Sentences
- ""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.'"
- "The baccy crop's looking good, ja, and one of the mombies calved this morning."
- "A mombie is a woman who "changes" after having a baby. She's been brainwashed by motherhood, […]. She loves nothing more than joining an army of other mombies, so don't be surprised if your old friend-turned-mombie begins to spend her time primarily with other mombies who are all covered in some kind of murky baby secretion."
- "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?"
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Bantu *ngòmbè Shona mombebor. English mombie Borrowed from Shona mombe (“cow”), from Proto-Bantu *ngòmbè.
Usage
- Canadian usage
- American usage
- Derogatory
- Slang