Mimimi

text: Dieses andauernde Mimimi geht mir wirklich auf den Wecker.

translation: This endless whining really gets on my nerves.

type: example

text: "Starlink darf in Südafrika nicht operieren, weil ich nicht schwarz bin." Das ist viel Mimimi, stimmt aber nicht.

ref: 2025 May 13, Christian Vooren, “Asyl für Südafrikaner: Viel Mimimi und Kokolores”, in Die Zeit, archived from the original on 02 Aug 2025:

english: "Starlink isn't allowed to operate in South Africa because I'm not black." That's a lot of whining, but also wrong.

type: quotation

links: derogatory derogatory

links: whining whining

links: complaining complaining

raw_glosses: (derogatory, informal) whining, complaining

pos: noun

de-noun

expansion: Mimimi n (strong, genitive Mimimis, no plural)

forms:
Mimimis (genitive)
Mimimi (nominative singular)
Mimimis (genitive singular)
Mimimi (dative singular)
Mimimi (accusative singular)

etymology_text: Nominalization of the onomatopoeia mimimi.

nominalization

de

expansion: Nominalization


Mimimi

text: Freunde der Beatles sind aber nicht solche Mimimis wie die Fans anderer Bands

ref: 2021 December 2, “Strawberry Fields Forever - THE BEATLES”, in forum.deaf-forever.de, archived from the original on 30 Aug 2025:

english: But Beatles fans aren't whiners the way fans of other bands are.

links: whiner whiner

raw_glosses: (derogatory, colloquial, chiefly plural) whiner

de-noun

m,,s

expansion: Mimimi m (strong, genitive Mimimis, plural Mimimis)

forms:
Mimimis (genitive)
Mimimis (plural)
Mimimi (nominative singular)
Mimimis (definite nominative plural)
Mimimis (genitive singular)
Mimimis (definite genitive plural)
Mimimi (dative singular)
Mimimis (dative definite plural)
Mimimi (accusative singular)
Mimimis (accusative definite plural)