mew
pronunciation
How to pronounce mew in British English:
UK [mju:]
How to pronounce mew in American English:
US [mju]
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- Noun:
- the sound made by a cat (or any sound resembling this)
- the common gull of Eurasia and northeastern North America
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- Verb:
- cry like a cat
- utter a high-pitched cry, as of seagulls
Word Origin
- mew (v.)
- "make a sound like a cat," early 14c., mewen, of imitative origin (compare German miauen, French miauler, Italian miagolare, Spanish maullar, and see meow). Related: Mewed; mewing. As a noun from 1590s.
- mew (n.1)
- "seagull," Old English mæw, from Proto-Germanic *maigwis (cognates: Old Saxon mew, Frisian meau, Middle Dutch and Middle Low German mewe, Dutch meeuw "gull"), imitative of its cry. Old French moue (Modern French mouette) and Lithuanian mevas are Germanic loan-words.
- mew (n.2)
- "cage," c. 1300, from Old French mue "cage for hawks, especially when molting," from muer "to molt," from Latin mutare "to change" (see mutable).
Example
- 1. When facing the tempestuous ocean I got myself lost like a mew .
- 2. He 's is called the mew genius of british opera .
- 3. Stomach antritis is pulled azole magnesium being fond of using by mew a cyanogen melon and oersted of us what .
- 4. Be the mew cabinet acceptable ?
- 5. Magnetic suspended train will bring us a mew fortune stream ?