mewings

Douthat is one of those over-rated and annoying young writers (The New Brat Pack) who always refer to the others by their first names only (Ross, Matt, Will, Ezra, Megan)as they build up their hits by discussing the others mewings.

And the new NYT columnist is: Ross Douthat! Ann Althouse 2009

But then I knew he would not understand at all and would do all the veshches I had done, yes perhaps even killing some poor starry forella surrounded by mewings kots and koshkas, and I would not be able to really stop him.

Stone Pastorals: Three Men on the Side of the Horses 1996

The frogs and crickets started up, and more faint mewings from the carpetbag.

To Say Nothing of the Dog Willis, Connie 1997

Gold attacked her concern with abstract issues of technique, terming them “little tinkerings,” the “psychological mewings of a bunch of ingrown decadents . . . prettified, artified evasions that are fit only to decorate the drawing rooms and boudoirs which hold the drunk parties and kept women of the rich.”

Portrait of An Artist Laurie Lisle 1986

Four days after the loss of the faithful Sultan, as we were going to bed, we heard behind our cottage mewings like those of a cat, but much louder.

Perils and Captivity Comprising The sufferings of the Picard family after the shipwreck of the Medusa, in the year 1816; Narrative of the captivity of M. de Brisson, in the year 1785; Voyage of Madame Godin along the river of the Amazons, in the year 1770. Pierre Raymond de Brisson

In vain do melodious mewings on the roof invite him to one of those cat parties in which fish bones play the part of tea and cakes; he is not to be tempted away from you.

Concerning Cats My Own and Some Others Helen M. Winslow

The terrible mewings and mouthings of a Kansas wind have the added terror of viewlessness.

The Land of Little Rain 1903

The terrible mewings and mouthings of a Kansas wind have the added terror of viewlessness.

The Land of Little Rain Mary Hunter Austin 1901

His mewings had not been satisfactory up to that point.

Life's Handicap Rudyard Kipling 1900

The small girl sat watching him for a minute and then skipped in after him, and the cormorants ceased their diving and the seagulls their wheelings and mewings, and all gathered agitatedly on a rock at the farther side of the bay, and wondered what such shouts and laughter might portend.

Carette of Sark John Oxenham 1896