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mewl

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4 lettersPronunciation /ˈmjuːl/Part of speech verbSorted elmwStarts with MEnds with L0 clues
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Definitions

  1. cry weakly or softly

Word origin

From 1599 or earlier (1530 in a Scottish document), apparently from Shakespeare with this spelling. Perhaps from Middle English mewen (“to whimper”) + -le (frequentative suffix).

Used in a sentence

  • And one man in his time plays many parts, / His acts being seven ages. At first the infant, / Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms; / Then the whining school-boy, […]
  • You're a pretty clog to be tied to a man for life, you mewling, white-faced cat!
  • My father started rubbing and rubbing on Mittens, scruffying her fur the wrong way, and she mewled her protests.

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