myllykirje

mylly +‎ kirje. The term was popularized by the 1976 book Kirjeitä myllystäni, which was a collection of such letters written by Urho Kekkonen; its title was, in turn, an indirect reference to that of Alphonse Daudet's Letters from My Windmill (Lettres de mon moulin).

• IPA^(key): /ˈmylːyˌkirjeˣ/, [ˈmylːyˌk̟irje̞(ʔ)]
• Rhymes: -irje
• Syllabification^(key): myl‧ly‧kir‧je
• Hyphenation^(key): mylly‧kirje

myllykirje

1. (idiomatic) a letter of disapproval or reprimand written by an authority, although often in a personal capacity

   Myllykirjeitä kirjoitti varsinkin Suomen presidenttinä toiminut Urho Kekkonen.

   Such letters of personal disapproval were written especially by Urho Kekkonen who served as the president of Finland.

• “myllykirje”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 3 July 2023