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verb mjuːmju [no object](of a cat or gull) make a characteristic high-pitched crying noise. （猫，某些鸟）咪咪叫，喵喵叫 Example sentencesExamples - The kitten followed me, mewing at my heels, rubbing up against my ankles when I stopped in the doorway.
- Suddenly, I was back on the couch, a black cat was sitting on my chest mewing loudly; I was completely paralyzed and I couldn't speak.
- The baby was found at 3am by a Spanish holidaymaker who thought he had heard a cat mewing.
- When I found her as a kitten, she was sitting in a ditch mewing.
- Her cat mewed at her anxiously and snarled at Cameron, who snarled right back.
- The next house had a collection of pickaninny dolls on shelves running the length of the living room, and a plump orange cat that blinked and mewed inquisitively as he passed.
- That's because a cat began mewing from an alley nearby.
- An orange tabby cat poked its head out of the grass and mewed.
- As I'm pausing to take a few photographs of the black cat, I hear mewing and jingling and here's this second cat, climbing the front steps and posing with an attitude of ownership.
- But then I go home and my kitten comes running out mewing and overwhelming my ankles with fuzzy friction until I pick it up.
- A lone cat mewed, and hid in the only home it would find in this section of town; a trash can.
- A cat mewed, a baby cried, and something heavy fell and shattered.
- The cat mewed again and immediately dropped down onto the sidewalk in front of the café's door for another roll-around.
- The old surveillance cat mewed pitifully on the way.
- Walking into the living-room, my eyes scanned every item for clues, while the cat prowled through my legs and mewed in an effort to grab my attention.
- Rubbing against the woman's arm, the cat mewed impatiently.
- Luke is behind her with a cat rubbing his legs, mewing for food.
- And then suddenly, he was gone, the kitten mewing on my bed, looking slightly annoyed.
- Her fluffy white cat mewed and jumped onto the table.
- Gradually he opened his eyes and the cat mewed before jumping down and shaking its head drowsily.
Synonyms miaow, meow, mewl, yowl, cry cry, screech, squawk miaowing, meowing, mewling, yowling caterwauling, noise cry, crying, screech, screeching, squawking
noun mjuːmju The high-pitched cry of a cat or gull. 咪，喵（猫或鸟叫声） 小猫的咪咪叫声。 Example sentencesExamples - A mew broke into Grace's thoughts, and she blinked down at the small kitten, who was attempting to make off with her fishnets.
- The mew of a hungry cat drifts pitifully from the nearby fish stall.
- The kitten in turn nibbled on my finger and looked at me with its striking blue eyes and gave a tiny mew.
- He responded with a friendly mew and then returned to his purring.
- The mystery at its heart is never very gripping, and the final twist seems both unnecessary and tame - a kitten's mew instead of a tiger's snarl.
- She grabbed him by the ankle, and he let out a small mew, jerked, and might have broken free if she had not tightened her grasp.
- There was a high-pitched mew, and one of the kitten's paws slashed up against the girl's right hand.
- He's big now, but he has a faint purr, a tiny kitten peeping mew.
- His answer was a soft mew from Fluffy, the cat at his feet.
- It sounded like a faint mew of a kitten, but I wasn't really sure.
- I smiled softly and turned onto my back, remembering that Hope had been there only when she gave an annoyed mew and jumped off.
- Its call is a soft mew that could be mistaken for a cat in distress.
- A mew made me look sharply at him, and he laughed as the kitten peeked from the cargo pocket on his left pant leg.
- The cat got off him and gave a little mew like a child guilty of stealing cookies.
- As she walked, she heard a fleeting mew from Ruby, who seemed to be getting anxious.
- Then I heard the red-head chattering and the plaintive mew of the sapsucker.
- Drake gave a mew, he was not to be forgotten here.
- The kitten gave her a quizzical look but did not let out a mew.
- Looking over Brie's shoulder she let out a mew of disgust.
- Alana's mother placed it on Alana's lap and Alana thought she heard a small mew.
OriginMiddle English: imitative. Rhymesaccrue, adieu, ado, anew, Anjou, aperçu, askew, ballyhoo, bamboo, bedew, bestrew, billet-doux, blew, blue, boo, boohoo, brew, buckaroo, canoe, chew, clew, clou, clue, cock-a-doodle-doo, cockatoo, construe, coo, Corfu, coup, crew, Crewe, cru, cue, déjà vu, derring-do, dew, didgeridoo, do, drew, due, endue, ensue, eschew, feu, few, flew, flu, flue, foreknew, glue, gnu, goo, grew, halloo, hereto, hew, Hindu, hitherto, how-do-you-do, hue, Hugh, hullabaloo, imbrue, imbue, jackaroo, Jew, kangaroo, Karroo, Kathmandu, kazoo, Kiangsu, knew, Kru, K2, kung fu, Lahu, Lanzhou, Lao-tzu, lasso, lieu, loo, Lou, Manchu, mangetout, misconstrue, miscue, moo, moue, mu, nardoo, new, non-U, nu, ooh, outdo, outflew, outgrew, peekaboo, Peru, pew, plew, Poitou, pooh, pooh-pooh, potoroo, pursue, queue, revue, roo, roux, rue, Selous, set-to, shampoo, shih-tzu, shoe, shoo, shrew, Sioux, skean dhu, skew, skidoo, slew, smew, snafu, sou, spew, sprue, stew, strew, subdue, sue, switcheroo, taboo, tattoo, thereto, thew, threw, thro, through, thru, tickety-boo, Timbuktu, tiramisu, to, to-do, too, toodle-oo, true, true-blue, tu-whit tu-whoo, two, vendue, view, vindaloo, virtu, wahoo, wallaroo, Waterloo, well-to-do, whereto, whew, who, withdrew, woo, Wu, yew, you, zoo noun mjuːmju usually mewsFalconry A cage or building for trained hawks, especially while they are moulting. （尤指供鹰换毛时用的）鹰笼；鹰棚 Example sentencesExamples - Bobby hoisted his one-year-old son, Aidan, into a backpack and went to transfer two pet hawks from their outdoor weathering perch to an indoor mews.
- It was quieter here, and more orderly, with falcon mews and kennels for the Baron's hunting dogs ranged against the wall.
- We do not have an outdoor mew to accommodate this size of bird and it's too cold outside for the condor now anyway.
verb mjuːmju Falconry 1no object (of a trained hawk) moult. （尤指经训练的鹰）换羽；脱毛 the eyasses clung dully to their leashes as if they were mewing Example sentencesExamples - The word itself derives from the royal stables at Charing Cross in London built on the site where the royal hawks were once moulted or mewed.
2with object Confine (a trained hawk) to a cage or building while moulting. （尤指换羽期）把（经训练的鹰）关入笼中 Raoul orders his tent to be pitched and his hawks to be mewed - 2.1 Confine (someone) in a restricting place or situation.
〈喻〉禁闭；关起 he was mewed up in close low stuffy rooms Example sentencesExamples - We are also asked to believe that, out of shame at his daughter's disability, he mewed her and her late mother up in ever smaller, tighter rooms.
OriginLate Middle English: from Old French mue, from muer 'to moult', from Latin mutare 'to change'. verbmjumyo͞o [no object](of a cat or some kinds of bird) make a characteristic high-pitched crying noise. （猫，某些鸟）咪咪叫，喵喵叫 a throng of cats and kittens mewing to be fed 一群喵喵待喂的大小锚。 Example sentencesExamples - And then suddenly, he was gone, the kitten mewing on my bed, looking slightly annoyed.
- The baby was found at 3am by a Spanish holidaymaker who thought he had heard a cat mewing.
- As I'm pausing to take a few photographs of the black cat, I hear mewing and jingling and here's this second cat, climbing the front steps and posing with an attitude of ownership.
- The next house had a collection of pickaninny dolls on shelves running the length of the living room, and a plump orange cat that blinked and mewed inquisitively as he passed.
- When I found her as a kitten, she was sitting in a ditch mewing.
- The old surveillance cat mewed pitifully on the way.
- Suddenly, I was back on the couch, a black cat was sitting on my chest mewing loudly; I was completely paralyzed and I couldn't speak.
- Walking into the living-room, my eyes scanned every item for clues, while the cat prowled through my legs and mewed in an effort to grab my attention.
- The cat mewed again and immediately dropped down onto the sidewalk in front of the café's door for another roll-around.
- Gradually he opened his eyes and the cat mewed before jumping down and shaking its head drowsily.
- But then I go home and my kitten comes running out mewing and overwhelming my ankles with fuzzy friction until I pick it up.
- A lone cat mewed, and hid in the only home it would find in this section of town; a trash can.
- Rubbing against the woman's arm, the cat mewed impatiently.
- Luke is behind her with a cat rubbing his legs, mewing for food.
- An orange tabby cat poked its head out of the grass and mewed.
- That's because a cat began mewing from an alley nearby.
- Her cat mewed at her anxiously and snarled at Cameron, who snarled right back.
- The kitten followed me, mewing at my heels, rubbing up against my ankles when I stopped in the doorway.
- A cat mewed, a baby cried, and something heavy fell and shattered.
- Her fluffy white cat mewed and jumped onto the table.
Synonyms miaow, meow, mewl, yowl, cry cry, screech, squawk miaowing, meowing, mewling, yowling cry, crying, screech, screeching, squawking
nounmjumyo͞o The high-pitched crying noise made by a cat or bird. 咪，喵（猫或鸟叫声） 小猫的咪咪叫声。 Example sentencesExamples - Looking over Brie's shoulder she let out a mew of disgust.
- The mystery at its heart is never very gripping, and the final twist seems both unnecessary and tame - a kitten's mew instead of a tiger's snarl.
- He's big now, but he has a faint purr, a tiny kitten peeping mew.
- She grabbed him by the ankle, and he let out a small mew, jerked, and might have broken free if she had not tightened her grasp.
- The cat got off him and gave a little mew like a child guilty of stealing cookies.
- Then I heard the red-head chattering and the plaintive mew of the sapsucker.
- A mew made me look sharply at him, and he laughed as the kitten peeked from the cargo pocket on his left pant leg.
- There was a high-pitched mew, and one of the kitten's paws slashed up against the girl's right hand.
- He responded with a friendly mew and then returned to his purring.
- His answer was a soft mew from Fluffy, the cat at his feet.
- The kitten in turn nibbled on my finger and looked at me with its striking blue eyes and gave a tiny mew.
- The kitten gave her a quizzical look but did not let out a mew.
- Drake gave a mew, he was not to be forgotten here.
- Alana's mother placed it on Alana's lap and Alana thought she heard a small mew.
- A mew broke into Grace's thoughts, and she blinked down at the small kitten, who was attempting to make off with her fishnets.
- As she walked, she heard a fleeting mew from Ruby, who seemed to be getting anxious.
- The mew of a hungry cat drifts pitifully from the nearby fish stall.
- I smiled softly and turned onto my back, remembering that Hope had been there only when she gave an annoyed mew and jumped off.
- Its call is a soft mew that could be mistaken for a cat in distress.
- It sounded like a faint mew of a kitten, but I wasn't really sure.
OriginMiddle English: imitative. nounmjumyo͞o usually mewsFalconry A cage or building for trained hawks, especially while they are molting. （尤指供鹰换毛时用的）鹰笼；鹰棚 Example sentencesExamples - We do not have an outdoor mew to accommodate this size of bird and it's too cold outside for the condor now anyway.
- It was quieter here, and more orderly, with falcon mews and kennels for the Baron's hunting dogs ranged against the wall.
- Bobby hoisted his one-year-old son, Aidan, into a backpack and went to transfer two pet hawks from their outdoor weathering perch to an indoor mews.
verbmjumyo͞o Falconry 1no object (of a trained hawk) molt. （尤指经训练的鹰）换羽；脱毛 Example sentencesExamples - The word itself derives from the royal stables at Charing Cross in London built on the site where the royal hawks were once moulted or mewed.
2with object Confine (a trained hawk) to a cage or building at the time of molting. （尤指换羽期）把（经训练的鹰）关入笼中
OriginLate Middle English: from Old French mue, from muer ‘to molt’, from Latin mutare ‘to change’. |