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mewls

  • present tense form of mewl (3rd person singular).

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“You’re using a lot of words I don’t fully understand,” mewls Ainsley.

From Salon Nov. 16, 2025

The rest of the time, Cedillo spoke in the mewls of a man who once roared.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 15, 2022

In Queen of Earth, Elisabeth Moss makes many: As the prickly Catherine, she deploys a collection of clucks, mewls, and barbed giggles, her voice the only bulwark against the collapse.

From Slate Aug. 26, 2015

The cat, Marie Antoinette, mewls, “Nothing is as it’s supposed to be.”

From New York Times Jan. 22, 2015

The new-born babe mewls on the mother’s breast, in a hammock formed out of a kerchief. 

From The Life of the Spider by Teixeira de Mattos, Alexander