mia mia

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mia mia¹

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Borrowed from Kurnai mai-mai or Wathaurong [Term?].

noun mia mias · mia-mia

  1. Australia An aboriginal shelter made from bark, a gunya. 1913, William Henry Fitchett, The New World of the South: Australia in the Making, 2006 Elibron Classics, page 391, On the point of this “spear” they erected what looked like a mia-mia, a hut made of branches by the blacks ; across the road opposite to it the trunk of a tree was dragged, leaving a n

    Similar: gunya, humpy, wurly

Mia Mia²

proper noun

  1. A locality in the City of Greater Bendigo and the Shire of Mitchell, central Victoria, Australia

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@misc{mia_mia_2026,
  title = {mia mia},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/mia%20mia},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}