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Mimimi
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mimimi
German
Etymology
de of the onomatopoeia de mimimi.
Noun
n.sg
de derogatory informal whining, complaining
de Dieses andauernde Mimimi geht mir wirklich auf den Wecker. This endless whining really gets on my nerves.
de Asyl für Südafrikaner: Viel Mimimi und Kokolores Christian Vooren w:Die Zeit https://web.archive.org/web/20250802173023/https://www.zeit.de/politik/ausland/2025-05/asyl-suedafrikaner-weiss-donald-trump-usa 2025-05-13 "Starlink darf in Südafrika nicht operieren, weil ich nicht schwarz bin." Das ist viel Mimimi, stimmt aber nicht. "Starlink isn't allowed to operate in South Africa because I'm not black." That's a lot of whining, but also wrong.
Declension
n.sg
Noun
m,,s
de derogatory colloquial chiefly plural whiner
de Strawberry Fields Forever - THE BEATLES forum.deaf-forever.de https://web.archive.org/web/20250830213014/https://forum.deaf-forever.de/index.php?threads/strawberry-fields-forever-the-beatles.10254/page-5 2021-12-02 Freunde der Beatles sind aber nicht solche Mimimis wie die Fans anderer Bands But Beatles fans aren't whiners the way fans of other bands are.
Declension
m,,s
See also
de Mimose