Miesmacher
German, noun[ˈmiːsˌmaxɐ]
Miesmacher is spelled M-I-E-S-M-A-C-H-E-R (10 letters) and appears about once in every 13 million words in written German, the 202,985th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Miesmacher is a German masculine noun meaning “negative Nancy (a person who is considered excessively and disagreeably pessimistic)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “Person, die über jemanden oder etwas nur Negatives behauptet”.
What does Miesmacher mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinenegative Nancy (a person who is considered excessively and disagreeably pessimistic)
- 2
masculinewet blanket (a person who takes the fun out of a situation with pessimism, criticism, etc.)
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Person, die über jemanden oder etwas nur Negatives behauptet 2. Person, die jemandem die Freude an einer Sache durch ständige Kritik nimmt
The definition in the German Wiktionary, in German.
Source: German Wiktionary, dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of Miesmacher
- Miesmachers genitive
- Miesmacherin feminine
- Miesmachern dative definite plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce Miesmacher?
- [ˈmiːsˌmaxɐ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is Miesmacher in German?
Miesmacher appears about once in every 13 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).