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mia mia

name · noun · 2 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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name

Meaning 1

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

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

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noun

Meaning 2

An aboriginal shelter made from bark, a gunya.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: Australia

Examples

  • 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 narrow track along which the escort must defile.

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History

Etymology

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