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maimai N.Z.|ˈmaɪˈmaɪ|
Also maemae, mai mai, mimi.
[Alteration of Austral. Aboriginal mia-mia mia-mia.]
A makeshift Maori shelter of sticks, grass, etc. (see quots. 1863, 1873). Hence, in more recent use, a duckshooter's hide or stand.
1863S. Butler First Year in Canterbury Settlement v. 72 The few Maories that inhabit this settlement..always go on foot, and we saw several traces of their encampments—little mimis, as they are called—a few light sticks thrown together, and covered with grass, affording a sort of half-and-half shelter for a single individual. 1873J. H. H. St. John Pakeha Rambles through Maori Lands ix. 153 In the days of bush fighting it used to be a common occurrence at the end of a day's march, when the maemae's had been knocked up by the side of a stream, to see three or four of the men gravely set to work with pannikin..and ‘wash’ for a prospect. 1963Weekly News (Auckland) 15 May 27 W. Porter operated successfully from a well-made maimai in the shallows of the Waikato River. 1966J. K. Baxter Pig Island Lett. 43 He needs the maimai's breast of shade. |