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单词 mewl
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Definition of mewl in English:

mewl

verb mjuːlmjul
[no object]often as adjective mewling
  • 1(especially of a baby) cry feebly or querulously; whimper.

    (尤指婴儿)低声哭,呜咽

    dozens of mewling babies

    好多呜呜啼哭的婴儿。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • As a child I was frequently dragged mewling by my father, a devotee of Richard Jefferies, to Coate Water, which had supposedly prompted that writer's Bevis, a work I found, and still find, entirely resistible.
    • Naturally, Prolacta's primary concern is the welfare of said mewling infants.
    • With the infant 2005 still mewling, Sue offers the following predictions for the year ahead.
    • The liberals mewling about language and presentation are merely preserving face as the body politic decomposes.
    • Having reread the following, I deem it too depressing and self-indulgent to post; nothing but mid-life crisis mewling at its farging worst.
    • In his ‘As You Like It’, Shakespeare traced the life of a man from mewling infant to whining schoolboy to sighing lover, to cursing soldier, to pompous middle age and piping old age and then.
    • Next thing you know, the dancers will demand a crèche and there'll be kids crawling and mewling all over the place.
    • A boor's boor, he spends much of the book mewling about the end of England when he's exactly the sort of person England needs saving from.
    • Slowly, they emerge out of a cloud of dust, like a weary ragtag army retreating from battle, a column of guests hauling enormous suitcases and mewling children.
    • The rest of the afternoon was difficult for us, as he spent most of it rocking and mewling in a corner.
    • The little Orion whimpered and mewled quietly, helpless to everything around him.
    • Anyone who doubts me on this would only need to have seen me at 7.15 this morning, mewling pitifully to an empty room that I must have had bad sushi last night and was dying, dying, dying.
    • Similarly, there are residential areas where only the elders dwell, and which are strictly off limits to the young, everyone from mewling infant to energetic teenager.
    • Through all my whining, mewling, and caterwauls of privileged desperation, there has been only one constant - my desire to attend Yale University Law School.
    • It wasn't until he heard the first mewling cries of his child that he even dared to look up in wonder of that miraculous sound.
    • Britain's mewling and puking republican rump has had its day in the sun - as happens in an almost predictable cycle every other generation.
    • Like the death of 10,000 cuts, injuries both serious and niggling have brought me scratching and mewling into middle age.
    • The Scottish independent television market was spawned, mewling and puking to begin with, by Channel 4 and its regional disbursement of funding.
    • A pair of well-trained sniper teams can hold up a platoon, a regiment, a brigade, send men scrabbling face down in the earth, huddling for cover, mewling and sobbing.
    • She rocks the baby, who is mewling hopefully near her breast.
    Synonyms
    whimper, cry, whine, squall
    informal grizzle
    literary pule
    1. 1.1 (of a cat or gull) mew.
      (猫,鸟)喵喵叫,咪咪叫
      the mewling cry of a hawk

      鹰的喵喵叫声。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • Whenever the roomies are gone (which is pretty much every weekend) he follows me around mewling and jumping on me every time I sit or lie down.
      • The old cat, the one that that appeared all scrawny and mewling at her door some six years ago, pulled a disappearing act on them all, just as they all had big projects to finish.
      • The cat was mewling piteously the other day and I said ‘she sounds like a siren.’
      • The cat stretched and mewled in distress, echoing my sentiments exactly.
      • This evening, when I got in from work, sitting on the back step and mewling plaintively was a small cat with a black splodge on his chin, and all his fur intact.
      • He picks her up and carries her off as he leaves, and the kitten mewls happily in is arms.
      • Max apparently got impatient and decided we were paying too much attention to each other and not enough to her, because she jumped on Reid's shoulder and started rubbing her head against his neck, purring and mewling loudly.
      • It scuttles over and mewls softly, nuzzling its fallen bedfellow.
      • In front of her was a family of four, with ten suitcases on a cart, and a small black cat, mewling its displeasure.
      • Her arms tightened around the purring cat involuntarily, causing him to mewl with displeasure and wiggle free of her grasp.
      • I can hear the familiar clicking of the sea-scorpions that haunts my dreams, and a new noise, like a mewling kitten.
      • And they mewl and cry, their symphony invested with irony, which I merely attribute to a vein in the quartz.
      • The kitten blinked at him sleepily, like another cat that he knew, and mewled.
      • The little girl's soft, dusty blonde locks brushed the screen and her high-pitched protests sounded like a kitten mewling.
      • She grew sick of staring at words by the third day, so she picked up Aedrial's mewling cat and sprawled across the bed, losing herself in thought.
      • The cat immediately began to twine in and out of his legs, mewling pitifully.
      • There is a t-shirt on sale over here showing the Lions before and after the Test matches, with a magnificent lord of the jungle reduced to a mewling pussycat to illustrate their descent.
      • The kittens were mewling pitifully, and I picked up their box and carefully carried it down the hallway and into my room.
      • The smaller one, the one who sits on our doorstep and mewls for treats (sometimes indulged) is Beardy (after his, um, beard… well, splodge of black on his chin, if you want to get technical about it) as seen here.
      • In response, their debut single for the major was a playful, painful cover of Al Green's ‘L.O.V.E. Love’ which featured a tortured sounding man trying to hit the high notes like an alley cat mewling on a fence.
      Synonyms
      miaow, meow, yowl, cry

Origin

Late Middle English: imitative; compare with miaul.

Rhymes

Banjul, befool, Boole, boule, boules, boulle, cagoule, cool, drool, fool, ghoul, Joule, misrule, mule, O'Toole, pool, Poole, pul, pule, Raoul, rule, school, shul, sool, spool, Stamboul, stool, Thule, tomfool, tulle, you'll, yule

Definition of mewl in US English:

mewl

verbmjulmyo͞ol
[no object]often as adjective mewling
  • 1(especially of a baby) cry feebly or querulously; whimper.

    (尤指婴儿)低声哭,呜咽

    dozens of mewling babies

    好多呜呜啼哭的婴儿。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • A boor's boor, he spends much of the book mewling about the end of England when he's exactly the sort of person England needs saving from.
    • With the infant 2005 still mewling, Sue offers the following predictions for the year ahead.
    • A pair of well-trained sniper teams can hold up a platoon, a regiment, a brigade, send men scrabbling face down in the earth, huddling for cover, mewling and sobbing.
    • Having reread the following, I deem it too depressing and self-indulgent to post; nothing but mid-life crisis mewling at its farging worst.
    • Next thing you know, the dancers will demand a crèche and there'll be kids crawling and mewling all over the place.
    • The rest of the afternoon was difficult for us, as he spent most of it rocking and mewling in a corner.
    • The Scottish independent television market was spawned, mewling and puking to begin with, by Channel 4 and its regional disbursement of funding.
    • The little Orion whimpered and mewled quietly, helpless to everything around him.
    • Naturally, Prolacta's primary concern is the welfare of said mewling infants.
    • In his ‘As You Like It’, Shakespeare traced the life of a man from mewling infant to whining schoolboy to sighing lover, to cursing soldier, to pompous middle age and piping old age and then.
    • Like the death of 10,000 cuts, injuries both serious and niggling have brought me scratching and mewling into middle age.
    • Slowly, they emerge out of a cloud of dust, like a weary ragtag army retreating from battle, a column of guests hauling enormous suitcases and mewling children.
    • As a child I was frequently dragged mewling by my father, a devotee of Richard Jefferies, to Coate Water, which had supposedly prompted that writer's Bevis, a work I found, and still find, entirely resistible.
    • Anyone who doubts me on this would only need to have seen me at 7.15 this morning, mewling pitifully to an empty room that I must have had bad sushi last night and was dying, dying, dying.
    • Similarly, there are residential areas where only the elders dwell, and which are strictly off limits to the young, everyone from mewling infant to energetic teenager.
    • It wasn't until he heard the first mewling cries of his child that he even dared to look up in wonder of that miraculous sound.
    • Britain's mewling and puking republican rump has had its day in the sun - as happens in an almost predictable cycle every other generation.
    • Through all my whining, mewling, and caterwauls of privileged desperation, there has been only one constant - my desire to attend Yale University Law School.
    • She rocks the baby, who is mewling hopefully near her breast.
    • The liberals mewling about language and presentation are merely preserving face as the body politic decomposes.
    Synonyms
    whimper, cry, whine, squall
    1. 1.1 (of a cat or bird) mew.
      (猫,鸟)喵喵叫,咪咪叫
      the mewling cry of a hawk

      鹰的喵喵叫声。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • The old cat, the one that that appeared all scrawny and mewling at her door some six years ago, pulled a disappearing act on them all, just as they all had big projects to finish.
      • The kitten blinked at him sleepily, like another cat that he knew, and mewled.
      • He picks her up and carries her off as he leaves, and the kitten mewls happily in is arms.
      • The cat was mewling piteously the other day and I said ‘she sounds like a siren.’
      • The little girl's soft, dusty blonde locks brushed the screen and her high-pitched protests sounded like a kitten mewling.
      • I can hear the familiar clicking of the sea-scorpions that haunts my dreams, and a new noise, like a mewling kitten.
      • The cat immediately began to twine in and out of his legs, mewling pitifully.
      • The smaller one, the one who sits on our doorstep and mewls for treats (sometimes indulged) is Beardy (after his, um, beard… well, splodge of black on his chin, if you want to get technical about it) as seen here.
      • The kittens were mewling pitifully, and I picked up their box and carefully carried it down the hallway and into my room.
      • Whenever the roomies are gone (which is pretty much every weekend) he follows me around mewling and jumping on me every time I sit or lie down.
      • Her arms tightened around the purring cat involuntarily, causing him to mewl with displeasure and wiggle free of her grasp.
      • Max apparently got impatient and decided we were paying too much attention to each other and not enough to her, because she jumped on Reid's shoulder and started rubbing her head against his neck, purring and mewling loudly.
      • And they mewl and cry, their symphony invested with irony, which I merely attribute to a vein in the quartz.
      • She grew sick of staring at words by the third day, so she picked up Aedrial's mewling cat and sprawled across the bed, losing herself in thought.
      • In front of her was a family of four, with ten suitcases on a cart, and a small black cat, mewling its displeasure.
      • In response, their debut single for the major was a playful, painful cover of Al Green's ‘L.O.V.E. Love’ which featured a tortured sounding man trying to hit the high notes like an alley cat mewling on a fence.
      • This evening, when I got in from work, sitting on the back step and mewling plaintively was a small cat with a black splodge on his chin, and all his fur intact.
      • It scuttles over and mewls softly, nuzzling its fallen bedfellow.
      • The cat stretched and mewled in distress, echoing my sentiments exactly.
      • There is a t-shirt on sale over here showing the Lions before and after the Test matches, with a magnificent lord of the jungle reduced to a mewling pussycat to illustrate their descent.
      Synonyms
      miaow, meow, yowl, cry

Origin

Late Middle English: imitative; compare with miaul.

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