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Mieze (also Miez or Miese, Mies) meaning " cat " has been used in German since the 18th century. A nickname is assumed to originate from the onomatopoeic “mi”, the call with which the cat lures its young. "Kitty" as a name for a cat does not have to be meant seriously. At the end of the 19th century, however, “Miez” was still used in Brehm's Thierleben . There are also the derived compositions kitty and kitty

Other uses

• Mieze is considered a nickname for Maria and Minna .
• The strawberry variety Mieze Schindler 1925 is said to have been named after the wife of the breeder Otto Schindler .
• A vulgar use in the sense of “girl” or “bed companion” is attributed to a transference of “cat” - “female sexual organ” - “woman”.
• Mieze (or Mieze Katz ) is also the stage name of the singer of the band MIA.
• Mieze is a main character in the novel Berlin Alexanderplatz .

Web links

Wiktionary: Mieze  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

References and footnotes

1. ↑ ^{a b} Mackensen - Large German Dictionary , 1977.
2. ↑ ^{a b c d e f} Kluge Etymological Dictionary of the German Language , 24th edition, 2002
3. ↑ Mackensen - Large German Dictionary , 1977: "not meant seriously", stylistically marked in Kluge
4. ↑ Digital dictionary of the German language, Lemma "Mieze"