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means A Japanese craft technique for knitting or crocheting small, stuffed yarn creatures and dolls, typically round, cute, and cuddly.

from From Japanese, blending 'ami' (編み, knitted or crocheted) with 'nuigurumi' (縫いぐるみ, stuffed doll) — literally 'knitted stuffed thing.' The craft itself draws on much older traditions of crochet and knitting, but the Japanese term — and the global obsession with tiny crocheted animals it names — spread internationally in the early 2000s as craft blogs and pattern books carried it far beyond Japan.