🇬🇧 Mummy meaning: English Vocabulary Flash Card

A mummy is a body that has been preserved and wrapped in cloth, often from ancient Egypt. People believed this helped the dead reach the afterlife. But during Halloween, a mummy is usually a funny or spooky character wrapped in toilet paper or bandages.

My mummy costume was so real, even the museum wanted to display me.

I tried to high-five the mummy, but his hand fell off. Awkward.

I tried to be a mummy for Halloween, but I looked more like a toilet paper accident.

Our dog barked at the mummy—until the mummy barked back!

I gave the mummy a hug… and he gave me dust.

At night a child finds a mummy in a dark room. The mummy is an old dead body wrapped in white bandages. The child touches the mummy and the bandage moves. The mummy sits up and looks. The child shouts, then laughs when the mummy waves. They leave with a small smile.

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