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mew

[ myoo ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

the tiny, high-pitched sound a cat or kitten makes.
the characteristic sound a gull makes.

verb (used without object)

to make a mew or emit a similar sound.

mew

[ myoo ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

a small gull, Larus canus, of Eurasia and northwestern North America.

mew

[ myoo ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

a cage for hawks, especially while molting.
a pen in which poultry is fattened.
a place of retirement or concealment.
mews, (usually used with a singular verb) Chiefly British.
1. (formerly) an area of stables built around a small street.
2. a street having small apartments converted from such stables.

verb (used with object)

Archaic. to shut up in or as in a mew; confine; conceal (often followed by up ).

mew

⁴

[ myoo ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

verb (used with or without object)

to shed (feathers); molt.

mew

/ mjuː /

noun

any seagull, esp the common gull, Larus canus Also calledmew gullsea mew

mew

/ mjuː /

verb

intr (of hawks or falcons) to moult
obsolete.
tr to shed (one's covering, clothes, etc)

mew

/ mjuː /

verb

intr (esp of a cat) to make a characteristic high-pitched cry

noun

such a sound

mew

⁴

/ mjuː /

noun

a room or cage for hawks, esp while moulting

verb

troften foll byup to confine (hawks or falcons) in a shelter, cage, etc, usually by tethering them to a perch
to confine, conceal

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Other Words From

mewer noun

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Word History and Origins

Origin of mew¹

First recorded in 1275–1325; Middle English meuen; imitative

Origin of mew²

First recorded in before 900; Middle English; Old English mǣwe; cognate with German Müwe

Origin of mew³

First recorded in 1325–75; Middle English mue, from Middle French, akin to muer “to molt”; mew ⁴

Origin of mew⁴

First recorded in 1325–75; Middle English mewen, from Old French muer “to molt,” from Latin mūtāre “to change”

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Word History and Origins

Origin of mew¹

Old English mǣw; compare Old Saxon mēu, Middle Dutch mēwe

Origin of mew²

C14: from Old French muer to moult, from Latin mūtāre to change

Origin of mew³

C14: imitative

Origin of mew⁴

C14: from Old French mue, from muer to moult, from Latin mūtāre to change

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Example Sentences

A dog would bark; a kitten would mew; a parrot would say "Pardon!"

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He brushed around Von Rosen out in the kitchen, and mewed a little, delicate, highbred mew.

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Mew-hew-she-kaw, the White Cloud; first Chief of the nation.

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How they would mew over my delinquencies, and what scratches I should get from their velvet-shod claws!

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The Black Cat gave vent to a single Mew,—a most unnatural sound for a mouser,—it seemed as it were mewed through a cow's horn!

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