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/Sounds like "mee" (as in "me") + "tah" (as in "tar") + "EE" (as in "eagle")/

Meaning

A child in Paraguayan Guaraní. It's the most tender, natural, everyday way to refer to little kids, and every Paraguayan uses it affectionately regardless of whether they speak more Spanish or Guaraní.

Examples

The mitaí are playing in the yard.

That mitaí looks just like his dad, they're identical.

In Spain, an insufferably tiresome and persistent person who never reads the room. A pelmazo latches on, goes on and on about the same topic, and genuinely cannot tell that everyone around them checked out long ago. The word comes from "pelma," a dense sticky mass, which is exactly how it feels to be around one.