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mia-mia|maɪˈmaɪ|
Also miam, miami, mi-mi, mia-mie.
The Western Australian and Victorian native name for: A hut, a rude shelter.
1845R. Howitt Australia 103 There she stood, in a perfect state of nudity, a little way from the road, by her miam. 1852Mrs. Perry in Goodman Ch. in Victoria (1892) 167 One of the mia mias..was as large as an ordinary-sized circular summer-house. 1861T. McCombie Austral. Sk. 15 Many diggers resided under branches of trees made into miamis or wigwams. 1868Carleton Austral. Nts. 2 The mia-mia that the native dark Had formed from sheets of stringy bark. 1870Tucker Mute 85 He yells the war-cry of his tribe around That makes the warriors from their mi⁓mis bound. |