mombie
- noun
- /ˈmɑːm.bi/
- Slang
- Her friends joked that she had turned into a mombie since becoming a mother, always forgetting things.
Examples
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She's really pro-kids and parents, but is not pro-crazy mombie on Facebook.
Blog text (12) -
As a new mother, she often felt like a mombie, dragging herself through the day with little energy.
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After countless sleepless nights, she became a true mombie, struggling to concentrate at work.
Synonyms
A very tired person who is slow and unresponsive from lack of sleep
Compounds
How Tired
- Offensive
- Slang
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Mombie is a modern mix of mom ('mother') and zombie ('a person who moves without energy'). It paints a picture of a mother so tired from lack of sleep, often from caring for a child, that she acts absent-minded and slow, which is why the word means a very tired mother.