mewl

• “i remember the first time we heard the word mewl in some class at school, and found out what it meant. something struck a chord, something hummed inside me ... an audible click. it is an intransitive verb that means to cry weakly, or whimper. there was finally a word for what that noise in my head was ...”

  vampishone Diary Entry

• “In allusion to those remarkable feats of arms and -- legs -- Early's or Stuart's raids and Jackson's forced rapid marches, almost at horse-speed, when the men carried no rations, but ate corn-ears taken from the shucks and roasted them "at their pipes," the droll ruler would bring in that "mewl" again:”

  The Lincoln Story Book

• “And finally you reveal the sham of yourself, the lip-service you pay to the idea that "[f] or a reviewer, I suppose all published work is fair game and, as writers, we should expect to take the good with the bad, review-wise" in your email, when you mewl pitiably that, "if I had received that email, I would have taken down the review.”

  How Not to be a Writer

• “I'm sorry you feel that way, he seemed to mewl out, turning away from her slowly to look out the window.”

  Fictionaut: Smoke and Mirrors

• “Only recently, one only has to look at them, to listen to them hiss and mewl about Haiti, about the poor and disenfranchised.”

  Steven Weber: The War on Hope

• “I was mesmerized with his humanity, his tiny features and newborn mewl and with the fact that he was mine.”

  Oh, Boy.

• “There was a satisfying and abrupt halt to the mewl of the flute.”

  Simon & Schuster: Much Ado About Marriage

• “They are pretty creepy, but mewl like little kittens.”

  Marebito (2004)

• “Every few seconds, a mewl emerges from the puff poking through the zip-top bag.”

  Simon & Schuster: Vivian Rising

• “The beast instantly sprang awake and began to mewl again.”

  Simon & Schuster: Behemoth

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