mummylike

comparative more mummylike · superlative most mummylike

1. Resembling or characteristic of a mummy (embalmed corpse).

   Abby and her boyfriend, Jared (“And Jared was all, ‘Whoa’ ”), even wrap and duct-tape the vampires for daytime transport and are caught by the police loading two mummylike objects into a minivan.

   2007 January 15, Janet Maslin, “The Vampire Wears Flannel, and He Cheats on His Tan”, in New York Times

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   I could, however, clearly distinguish that the swathed mummy-like form before me was that of a tall and lovely woman, instinct with beauty in every part, and also with a certain snake-like grace which I had never seen anything to equal before.

   1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC