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mew

1

[ myoo ]

noun

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


verb (used without object)

  1. to make a mew or emit a similar sound.

mew

2

[ myoo ]

noun

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

mew

3

[ myoo ]

noun

  1. a cage for hawks, especially while molting.
  2. a pen in which poultry is fattened.
  3. a place of retirement or concealment.
  4. 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)

  1. 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)

  1. to shed (feathers); molt.

mew

1

/ mjuː /

noun

  1. a room or cage for hawks, esp while moulting
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verb

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

2

/ mjuː /

verb

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

  1. such a sound
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

mew

3

/ mjuː /

noun

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

4

/ mjuː /

verb

  1. intr (of hawks or falcons) to moult
  2. 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!"

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

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

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

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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