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▪ I. mewl, n.|mjuːl|
[f. mewl v.]
= mew n.3
1857A. Marsh Rose of Ashurst I. iii. 95 A woman's voice and a baby's mewl were heard.
▪ II. mewl, v.|mjuːl|
Also 9 mule.
[Echoic; cf. miaul v.]
intr. a. To cry feebly, whimper, like an infant; to make a whining noise. Also trans. with out. b. To mew like a cat.
1600Shakes. A.Y.L. ii. vii. 144 The Infant, Mewling, and puking in the Nurses armes. 1611Cotgr., Miauler, to mewle, or mew, like a cat. 1818Hazlitt Eng. Poets vi. (1870) 151 Gargantua mewls, and pules, and slabbers his nurse. 1819Moore Mem. (1853) III. 91 It [the music] was squalled and mewled out by Madames Branchia and Albert. 1861Crt. Life at Naples II. 204 He would bid her dry her eyes, and not be puling and muling like a baby. 1882P. Fitzgerald Recreat. Lit. Man II. xvii. 95 [A dog] growling, snarling, and even mewling with rage.
Hence ˈmewling vbl. n. and ppl. a. Also ˈmewler.
1611Cotgr., Miaulement, a mewling, or mewing. Ibid. Miauleur, a mewler, or mewer. 1755Smollett Quix. (1803) IV. 67 The mewling of the cats. 1831Moore Mem. (1854) VI. 210 His enharmonics like the mewlings of an expiring cat. 1844Dickens Mart. Chuz. xxviii, You mewling, white-faced cat! |