mummy : Idioms & Phrases

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Mummy brown

  • a brown color, nearly intermediate in tint between burnt umber and raw umber. A pigment of this color is prepared from bitumen, etc., obtained from Egyptian tombs.
Webster 1913

Mummy wheat

  • (Bot.), wheat found in the ancient mummy cases of Egypt. No botanist now believes that genuine mummy wheat has been made to germinate in modern times.
Webster 1913

mummy-brown

  • adjective satellite snuff colored; of a greyish to yellowish brown
    snuff; chukker-brown; snuff-brown.
WordNet

To beat to a mummy

  • to beat to a senseless mass; to beat soundly.
Webster 1913