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mew
1[ myoo ]
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
2[ myoo ]
noun
- a small gull, Larus canus, of Eurasia and northwestern North America.
mew
3[ myoo ]
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.
- (formerly) an area of stables built around a small street.
- 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 ]
verb (used with or without object)
- to shed (feathers); molt.
mew
1/ 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
mew
2/ mjuː /
verb
- intr (esp of a cat) to make a characteristic high-pitched cry
noun
- such a sound
mew
3/ mjuː /
noun
- any seagull, esp the common gull, Larus canus Also calledmew gullsea mew
mew
4/ mjuː /
verb
- intr (of hawks or falcons) to moult
- obsolete.tr to shed (one's covering, clothes, etc)
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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
C14: from Old French mue, from muer to moult, from Latin mūtāre to change
Origin of mew2
C14: imitative
Origin of mew3
Old English mǣw; compare Old Saxon mēu, Middle Dutch mēwe
Origin of mew4
C14: from Old French 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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