mew

noun · verb · interjectionA1

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noun

Plural noun:

mews

1.
(archaic, dialectal, poetic)A gull, seagull.
2.
(obsolete)A prison, or other place of confinement.
3.
(obsolete)A hiding place; a secret store or den.
4.
(obsolete)A breeding-cage for birds.
5.
(falconry) A cage for hawks, especially while moulting.
6.
(in plural)(falconry, in the plural) A building or set of buildings where moulting birds are kept.
7.
The crying sound of a cat; a meow, especially of a kitten.
8.
The crying sound of a gull or buzzard.
9.
(obsolete)An exclamation of disapproval; a boo.

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verb

V_es/s

mews

V_ing/Gerund

mewing

V_ed/pp

mewedmue

1.
(archaic)To shut away, confine, lock up.
1693, John Dryden (translator), The Satires of Juvenal, London: Jacob Tonson, Satire 1, p. 10, […] Nay some have learn’d the trick To beg for absent persons; feign them sick, Close mew’d in their Sedans, for fear of air:
2.
(of a bird) To moult.
The hawk mewed his feathers.
3.
(obsolete)(of a bird, obsolete) To cause to moult.
4.
(obsolete)(of a deer, obsolete) To shed antlers.
5.
(especially)(of a cat, especially of a kitten) To meow.
6.
(of a gull or buzzard) To make its cry.
7.
(intransitive, slang)To flatten one's tongue against the roof of the mouth, with the aim of improving jaw and facial structure.

interjection

1.
A cat's (especially a kitten's) cry.
2.
A gull's or buzzard's cry.
3.
(archaic)An exclamation of disapproval; boo.

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From Middle English mewe, mowe, meau, from Old English mǣw (seagull), from *maiwī, from Proto-Germanic *mai(h)waz (seagull). See also, meeuw, Möwe (whence mewa); akin to Latvian maût (to roar), Old Church Slavonic мꙑꙗти (to mew).