mew
Meaning of mew
verb
- (of a cat or some kinds of bird) make a characteristic high-pitched crying noise.
cats mewing to be fed
- the high-pitched crying noise of a cat or bird.
a kitten's mew
Middle English: imitative.
noun
a cage or building for trained hawks, especially while they are moulting.
verb- (of a trained hawk) moult.
the eyasses clung dully to their leashes as if they were mewing
- confine (a trained hawk) to a cage or building while moulting.
Raoul orders his tent to be pitched and his hawks to be mewed
late Middle English: from Old French mue, from muer ‘to moult’, from Latin mutare ‘to change’.
Information about mew
- The plural form of mew is: mews.
- Languages in which mew is used:
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Hyphenation of mew
mew
- It consists of 1 syllables and 3 chars.
- mew is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable
mew synonyms
Meaning meow:
Meaning (especially of a baby) cry feebly or querulously; whimper:
Meaning make a loud wailing cry:
Meaning shed tears, typically as an expression of distress, pain, or sorrow:
Meaning (of a person or animal) give a loud, harsh, piercing cry:
Meaning (of a bird) make a loud, harsh noise:
Anagrams of mew
Words that rhyme with mew
seamew, pigmew, emmew, immew, enmew, inmew, unmew, Bartholomew, Batholomew, bartholomew, intermew, kirmew, smew, transmew
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