"Měchawa" / "Měchawka"
metaphores
Terms used as pet names for whining little children; According to Raupp, both of them are also used as family names; "Měchawa" is also used as an insulting term for a clumsy, angry, "bloated", or arrogant adult.
Мука, Эрнестъ [Muka, Ernest; also known as Arnošt Muka; German name: Karl Ernst Mucke]: Словарь нижне-лужицкаго языка = Słownik dołnoserbskeje rěcy [Dictionary of the Lower Silesian language]. Petrograd [St. Petersburg], 1921, p.875 (➺ Měchawa 3: übertr.).
Raupp, Jan: Sorbische Volksmusikanten und Musikinstrumente. Bautzen, 1963, ➺ p.55.